Free Forum Hosting

[Lyndon]

Kazorum.com is a free phpbb forum hosting service. The system allows you to signup and have your forum created instantly. We have chosen to use phpbb software because of its versatility and ease of use. It has many great features, such as a private messaging system, support for multiple languages, an easy to use template system which allows you to change the look of your free forum at the flick of a switch.

All Kazorum admins get access to their own private admin panel, it is from here where you have full control over your board - you are able to choose a theme for it, we currently have over 300 forum styles installed. You can create public and private forums, lookup users, view forum stats, change the forum language and much more..

This service is provided free on state of the art dedicated servers, we take daily backups so your important data can never be lost. This is all paid for by placing advertising at the top of your forum, this will be targetted to match the content of your forum and we do not allow any pop-ups or other shady methods of advertising.

Standard Features Include:

Security

* Designed with security as a priority
* Powerful and extensive authorization system
* Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database

Unlimited Forums & Categories

* Unlimited forums can be organized 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
* 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
* Control 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 unloadable avatars

Moderation Features

* Topic editing
* Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
* Topic splitting
* 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 authorization
* Word censoring
* Complete member management
* Emoticon setup
* Optional new post verification
* 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 colors with cascading style sheets (CSS)
* Default style compliant with XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 recommendations from the W3C


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Post edited by: lyndonw, at: 2005/05/21 11:50

this host has to be one of the best phpbb hosts I have seen B)

Has to be said it is the best one yet and the best part is the great support team. Check my one out it dose what it says on the tin! http://ladz.kazorum.com

been using them for about 4 months now - found them here - good free host.