Forums or message/discussion boards are a great way to encourage people to keep using your website on a regular basis. The more posts you get daily, the more chance you website has to thrive. At 600Host we provide you two great forums in your host package. You can find these by logging into your cpanel and then clicking into Fantastico.

SMF (Simple Machines) and the more widely used PHPBB (Php Bulletin Board) are great forums to use. Both are fully customizable and each have features which allow you to moderate posts, members and restrict forums from people who you don’t want to view them. You can also change the look of your forum by changing themes. Some of which are provided, some you have to download and install yourself. Don’t let that put you off though, as they are easily uploaded and configured in your moderation interface you get with each forum.

You have complete control over the categories and the discussion sections that are housed in them. You can set up moderators to check over the posts and delete or move topics and ban unwanted members. With each forum can be how you want it in a few simple steps.

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