phpBB
phpbb or php bulletin board is free internet forums software. It is the most popular open-source PHP forum script available. With phpbb you can create online community where users can talk to each other, create thread, posts, add attachments. User permission system is integrated into core features, acls, bans, captchas, administrators, moderators, categories and many others. Style manager is included, where you can easily change the design of your website. Lots of free themes are available on the net. If you want to extend your standard phpbb forum, you can use mods (modifications). They are separated from core code and are easy to install. There are also lots of free modifications available allowing webmaster to create forum fit for their needs. Hosting requirements for phpBB are PHP and MySQL (although other database systems are supported: oracle, ms sql, posgresql and others), MySQL is the most popular database system and is available on thousands of hosts.
Hostmonster phpBB Review
On hostmonster phpBB should run without any problems, because hostmonster have the LAMP setup (Linux Apache MySQL PHP). Installation can be done manually or via Fantastico one-click installer cPanel tool. I recommend Host Monster as as phpbb host.
November 25th, 2009
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What is cPanel?
cPanel the industry leader web hosting control panel is a commercial software, but it is offered at no further cost by HostMonster to you (they actually pay all the fees and give you to use this control panel), which allows the administration server through a Web browser. cPanel facilitate such activities as creating databases, copying, domain parking or making backup (ie backup). “Part of” CPanel dedicated administrator has been called Web Host Manager (WHM aka). WHM allows you to add, delete or change the parameters of accounts managed by cPanel. The current version is called “cPanel X” because this version is marked numbers above 10. cPanel allows many users to further customize settings and easily manage websites, while maintaining security.
HostMonster cPanel
HostMonster cPanel is much like any other cpanel and it’s very simple and easy to manage. You can easily create new databases , use fantastico for one click install of popular CMSs like wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, phpbb, zencart (and other shopping carts). With FTP accounts you can easily add new accounts and set permissions of folders or files, and even set quotas (in megabytes) for these accounts. You can easily add new domains and sub domains and cpanel will automatically create folders where you will put the files for your new web site. After you do this, all you have to do is point the domain to hostmonster name servers.
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