What is phpBB?

If you need a discussion board, a place where you can speak to different folks on different matters, then phpBB – the most famous free bulletin board software app, will be a very good option for you.

What phpBB offers you is a great admin user interface, via which you can manage all the settings of your Internet forum – you can decide who’ll be the moderators, precisely how the site will look and feel, etc. Yet another enormous advantage of phpBB is familiarity – many people are already aware of this software application and as soon as they notice your website, they will know what to do.

phpBB™ is a trademark of phpBB Limited and is not connected with Host Mates.

phpBB–Optimized Cloud Hosting Services

At Host Mates, you’ll find reliable shared website hosting services that are optimized to keep your phpBB–based forum available online, no matter how many existing users you are having.

All phpBB–optimized cloud hosting packages that we, at Host Mates, are offering will give you unlimited disk drive space, unlimited traffic and unlimited MySQL database storage space allocations. This way, your online forum can grow safely without you having to be worried about exceeding any resource limits. To render your hosting life a whole lot easier, all phpBB cloud hosting plans also offer a 99.9% server uptime guarantee and a 24–7 technical support service.

An Easy–to–Use Web Hosting Control Panel

With each of our phpBB cloud hosting packages, you will get Host Mates’s custom–created Web Control Panel. It is one of the fastest hosting Control Panels obtainable on the web; it’s built to live entirely in the cloud and it allows you to manage your domains and your sites from one and the same location.

Our Control Panel is also chock–full of tools and bonuses, which will allow you to manage your site a lot easier and to make it run much better. You’ll have at your disposal a drag ’n’ drop File Manager, an all–embracing Domain Manager, a Databases Manager using which you can create database backups with a click, etc. You’ll be able to set up new applications swiftly using Host Mates’s . And you can increase the speed of your website significantly using any of Host Mates’s Site Accelerators.