Open source forum software by matt on February 25, 2006
Q: Do you know of any good open source forums? I’m working on a site running on the Apache web server and I was wondering if there are any good ones.
A: The most well known piece of open source forum software is phpBB, which is programmed in PHP. This software should be easy for you to setup on your apache environment.
I know many people that use phpBB on their sites and like it a lot. I have personally opted for a non-open source product called vBulletin to use when I have to setup forum software. The reason I go this route is phpBB gets very slow if you have a lot of visitors to your site at a time or over a million or so posts.
If you expect to keep things small then phpBB is a great option; there are also options for migrating to paid forum software down the road from phpBB.
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ememjammer
Posted on September 24th, 2007
So I was off work and surfing and found this place and thought I would join up. I don’t have much more to say right now except I need to start reading some of the older posts to get up to speed before I can start posting.
Em
xztheericzx
Posted on November 5th, 2007
i’m eric. joining a couple boards and looking
forward to participating. hehe unless i get
too distracted!
eric
DamionKutaeff
Posted on March 22nd, 2008
Hello everybody, my name is Damion, and I’m glad to join your conmunity,
and wish to assit as far as possible.
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