need host for a forum

[coolguy23]

what host should i use for a phpbb or a ubb?

[top]

When I was looking for a forum software many people said that UBB will cause problems when installed on a free server. People say that UBB eats a lot of server resources.

Have you considered using Ikonboard? It installs on most fwp's having cgi enabled. No php or mySQL needed.

[sparkfan12]

http://www.datablocks.net will support both of them, but UBB is a resource hog. Use phpbb or ikonboard

[Canuckkev]

I don't know this for a fact, but someone on this forum said ikonboard uses a lot more resources than UBB. I'd believe it too.

[coolguy23]

thanks alot...ne 1 know of a cgi forum that doesn't take up lots up resourse....what about the new ubb v6 beta....any suggestions

[Coolin]

Originally posted by Canuckkev
I don't know this for a fact, but someone on this forum said ikonboard uses a lot more resources than UBB. I'd believe it too. It was me... But they say that IkonBoard 3 will use a lot less resources. We'll see about that, for it may also be a viable alternative when it is released.

Coolguy, as for UBB v6 beta, there has been a lot of heat surrounding vBulletin's and UBB's forums (found on http://www.vbulletin.com and http://www.infopop.com respectively) on how UBB 6 is indeed slower (and therefore more resource intensive) than it's 5.x counterpart.

PHPBB, in my opinion, has too large of a font size in its posts and I cannot find anything that lets me change it. However, I find vBulletin to be just as good (better even, as you don't need to hack it up a lot to find some of the most common features like UBB does) as UBB.

[coolguy23]

you can't change the font size in phpbb...that sucks :( i was thinkin of using them but after that last comment i don't think i'll be using it....:(

[Coolin]

Originally posted by coolguy23
you can't change the font size in phpbb...that sucks :( i was thinkin of using them but after that last comment i don't think i'll be using it....:( You could, but I just couldn't find it. And from all the other forums I have seen, they seem to use that super large font also for the posts. A good bet would be to go to http://www.phpbb.com and ask if changing the font of the posts is possible.

[lpok]

Ikonboard seems to run slowly for me. My experiences, I find yabb, http://www.yabb.org, to be a little faster than ikonboard. I had a yabb board on http://www.f2s.com, which ran ok. Netfirms.com is a good place to run your boards too.