forum hosting?

[rapmaster]

whats the best paid host to put a web forum on? I'm thinking of putting up like a phpbb or burning board up and I need a good host with pleanty of bw, php4, and a mysql db that isn't going to delete me for puting a forum on their server and who is reliable enough that I dont have to wait 6 hours for the page to load.

[Mika]

I don't think that there is a host that will allow (I'm talking about shared hosting) you do whatever you want with your forum. And if you have a really busy forum then for sure you'll have problems with any host.

[Archbob]

Most hosts will 'allow' you to have a forums, but if it gets busy, then you'd better look into dedicated servers at www.rackchack.com

[Kaliber]

Don't you mean www.rackshack.net :rolleyes:

[Mika]

Come on, everyone could understand that. No need you to specify!!!!

[NexDog]

Hey,

A board would have to be at WHT standards before it needed a dedicated. PHP/MySQL boards are quite kind on the hardware. The new phpBB2 is really excellent for a free board. All our resellers use it.

[bballfreak]

http://www.perpetualhosting.net allows forums.

[Hoth]

It all depends on what you mean by plenty of bandwidth. Discount Hosting (http://www.discount-hosting.com) works great for forums, and 5 GB/month should fit a forum with a fair number of posts per day... and then when the forums get really popular you'd upgrade to another host.

[Archbob]

PhpBB is kind on CPU usage, but if it gets to be busy like this one, you will need a dedicated server.

[SnAcKx66]

yourpod.com allows forums hosting!