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Hostmonster hosting is a good forum hosting plan too! You can host smf forum, vbulletin forum, phpbb forum and other forum scripts here at hostmonster web hosting. PhpBB forum can be easily setup and install via host monster simplescripts installer tool. Current phpbb version available for installation is  v3.0.4, released 13 December 2008. You can choose to use installer, or manually upload script to server for installation.

“Since its creation in 2000, phpBB(TM) has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. Like its predecessors, phpBB(TM) 3.0 “Olympus” has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes.

With a large and highly customisable set of key features coupled with a standards compliant interface, phpBB(TM) will grow with, and compliment your website. With millions of installations worldwide, it is no wonder phpBB(TM) is one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.“

Hostmonster hosting is suitable for hosting forum website. In previous hostmonster reviews we had conducted short review and installation of smf forum at hostmonster cpanel hosting plan. For this coming hostmonster review, we will continue testing the hostmonster hosting for vbulletin forum script.

Vbulleting is the premier forum script available today, its not free, you can purchase annual license from vbulletin website. And once you have the license to host the forum and downloaded the vbulletin forum script, you are ready to rock and roll, and host your forum site with hostmonster web hosting plan.

Hostmonster hosting $4.95 per month is recommended for vbulleting website too. From our testing and demo test run, we manage to setup vbulletin script and make it running at hostmonster web hosting server. Note that vbulletin will require php and mysql in order to run. How good is the forum performance? We can see hostmonster server able to host the forum script without problem, the page loading is fast enough and smooth loading is observed over time. We are not worry much at this moment, unless you already having hundreds of online members at one time then you should consider a vps hosting or a dedicated server for that much of member capacity.

I have been active in Hostmonster forums for over a year. Their customer to customer support forum is a nice place to ask questions relevant to Hostmonster hosting. If you are facing server problem or script problem, close up your question in hostmonster forums, and it will be answer the friendly hostmonster users.

However, if you are having questioned not just related to Hostmonster, but more to general web hosting or related to other web hosting company, this Hostmonster forum will not be the right place to search for answers. Alternatively, you can post your question in a more general web hosting forum and discussion site, for example www.ixwebhostingforum.com, which also having a small sup forum for Hostmonster discussion.

You can find their Hostmonster forum at http://www.ixwebhostingforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=10

The commonly used php forum script are: vbulletin, phpbb2, smf script. These are the few popular one. I had experience with these forum scripts installation and running these forum. I having a vbulletin forum runnin now as well. And the fact is that, setup these forum on hostmonster hosting is very easy. Not much hard work or technical skill require.

Login to your hostmonster cpanel control panel, and go to fantastico. Choose either phpbb2 or smf scripts for installation. If you want to have vbulletin script running, you will require to purchase a license from vbulletin homepage. Cost you $80 per year. Which is worth paying, as vbulletion forum script is very excellent. Even the hostmonster official forum site is using vbulletin as well.

Back to the installation process, after you selected phpbb2 forum, the fantastico will guide you through the installation process. Answer few question, and your forum is up running. Simple as that.

Hostmonster is in special promotion now, and with special discount link from this review site, you are paying for $5.95/mo instead of $6.95/mo. And currently hostmonster hosting upgraded their hosting plan to 1500GB storage space.

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A step further search at google.com, i found that hostmonster.com have their own user community or more like a discussion forums. Hostmonster forums was stablished at November 2006. Any issue, problem or complaints that not being solved can be found here. Indeed there is medorator and system administrator dedicated to this forum to assist those need helps.

Found out this forum is expecially useful to get help when you have scripting or coding problem. Why the script can not connect to hostmonster database etc! can come here and find for helps.

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