Internet Forum lets you enable to post your thought, ask a question and get the feedback, suggestions and replies from other members of the forum. You are never alone in a forum.

Defining a Forum

An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user generated content. Internet forums are also commonly referred to as web forums, message boards, discussion boards, (electronic) discussion groups, discussion forums, bulletin boards, fora (the Latin plural) or simply forums. The terms "forum" and "board" may refer to the entire community or to a specific sub-forum dealing with a distinct topic." Source : Wikipedia.org

Making your own Forum Website

The easiest way to create a forum website is to use an appropriate forum script. This way you do not need to know anything about the web design and programming in order to share your thoughts, ask questions to the forum, make comments etc. At HumDomains, we recommend the use of following forum scripts for creating a forum of the community.

Simple Machines Forum

SMF is an advanced community software package that enables you to set up and manage online community forums.

Vanilla Forum

Vanilla is a free lightweight and extensible open source forum software using PHP scripting language and MySQL database management system. 

  YetAnotherForum

YetAnotherForum.NET (YAF) is a Open Source discussion forum or bulletin board system for web sites running ASP.NET. The latest version is ASP.NET v2.0 with a Microsoft SQL Server backend. The full C# source code is available licensed as GPL.

Getting Started and Setting Up!

You don't have to buy a hosting account to start your own forum website. To begin with, get a domain from HumDomains - that's cheap with our promotional prices. Each domain includes many extra stuffs including 5 GB Free PHP/MySQL Hosting (small forced ads, non-obstructive, no pop-up).

• Select free Linux PHP hosting plan (for SMF and Vanilla Forum) or Windows ASP hosting plan (for YetAnotherForum) form your control panel that come with your domain.
• Install the forum script from the value applications control panel within the hosting control panel. Installing applications are free, easy and fast. Please note that FREE hosting account forces the small ads on the top of each pages. The small forced ads could also be easily removed with the paid hosting plan.

All the best for your forum website.