Free Forum Hosting

Welcome to Free Forums.

Free-Forums is a service which offers free PHPBB3 forum automatic creation. We setup a free online PhpBB3 forum instantly and activation is done in seconds.

Your free forum will be hosted for free on our dedicated servers (Dual Xeon / 4 GB RAM). You will have a free subdomain like yourname.free-forums.org.

Also, we give you unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage space for you free forum to start your own community and grow it as much as you can.

Your free forum is optimized for search engines (SEO). Instead of dynamical URL's, your free forum will have static pages and it will be indexed quickly and better by all search engines. If you want to see a sample forum hosted by Free-Forums Click Here.

Our free forum hosting service offers over 250 additional skins and 85 additional languages (having English by default) such as Danish, Italian, Dutch, Japanese, English, Norwegian, Finnish, Portuguese, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Chinese (simplified), Korean, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Turkish and others .

If you would like to start hosting your free PhpBB3 forum today with us click "Get a FREE FORUM" located at the top of this page or Click Here.

You can see what kind of free forums we are hosting and find out how people customize their own free forums. All you have to do is to browse the directory of free PhpBB hosted forums Here.

We answer to all your questions about your free PhpBB forum in our Support Forum. If you have problems with your free forum don't hesitate to contact us.

Free Forum Hosting Features

Security

- Designed with security as a priority
- Always updated to the latest version
- Powerful and extensive authorisation system
- Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database
- Support for both cookie and URI-based sessions

Unlimited Forums & Categories

- Unlimited forums can be organised into as many categories as you like
- Private forums and those only for specified user groups
- Powerful search facility

Posting Messages

- Message formatting with various font styles and sizes as well as allowing quoting, code display, image posting and automatic URL linking
- Allow posting for Youtube and Google Video messages
- Support of standard and extended BBCode tags and controlled HTML tags
- Polls can be simply added to posts
- Email notification of replies to your topics
- Powerful topic subscription capability
- Original emoticons to portray emotions

Versatile User Groups & Forum Permissions

- Powerful forum, user and group permission management
- Control forum access to specified user groups and all aspects of the posting experience
- Allow limited access to viewing, posting, replying and many other options

Member Features

- Unlimited members
- Personal profile creation
- Post counting and administrator-definable ranks for users
- Email-like private messaging system
- Supports local, remote and uploadable avatars

Moderation Features

- Topic editing/splitting and mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
- Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages on a per-forum basis

Easy to Use Administration Centre

- General configuration
- Forum & category setup
- Disallowed usernames
- User authorisation
- Word censoring
- Complete member management
- Extensive ban management, ban by email address, username or single/multiple IP address or hostname
- IP tracking of posts and posters
- Mass emailing of groups and users by the administrator

Style and Customisation

- Multiple styles available for the user to choose from
- Complete control of fonts and colours with cascading style sheets (CSS)
- Default style compliant with XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 recommendations from the W3C