Its quickest and easiest to setup forum websites by using the iPage Simplescripts installer, it provide the fastest 1-click installation process. All the technical skill required are taken out from the process and things are iron out and become very simple. Installing via installer only takes few seconds. Choose the type of forum to install, choose location for installation, and click the install button, and its done.

The iPage phpBB forum website installation screen looks like this. Description and details are provided, and the tab below allows you to start the installation process. Simple and easy to complete, no technical skill requires.

iPage vDeck Login > Simplescripts > Forum > phpBB

This installer tool is far better compare to Fantastico. We have counted the type of software you get to install from Simplescripts, its more than 80 types, and there is more than 5 types of forum software to choose from. Compare with Fantastico with only 3 forum software to choose from. Here are the screen shot from iPage Simplescripts

From our reviews and testing, its concluded that this iPage budget web hosting plan is a suitable place to host various types of forum websites. We always recommend iPage hosting to webmaster that looking for blog hosting & forum hosting. Why is it? Simply because iPage hosting is offering the best web hosting deals you can find, price at $2.99 per month, and iPage hosting is with unlimited web hosting features. Plus another $450 dollars free gift included, you get the best deal here with ipage hosting for sure.

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Our bbPress website testing will cover both installation from iPage Simplescripts installer and manual installation. Both method are totally different, and so we are testing them both one after another. First from the Simplescripts installation, we are using the provided installer tool to setup new bbPress website in our iPage hosting account. From vDeck, go to Simplescripts and choose forum > bbPress installation. Click the installation button and next choose the installation location, and complete the installation process. Three simple steps, and we have bbPress setup in our iPage web hosting account. The installation page looks like this

Our second testing is manual setup installation, and we are uploading the bbPress to a sub-directory and setup the bbPress forum at test directory. Without errors and problem, the bbpress forum site had been up running in minutes of time. To those that not sure how to upload files to server, you can use the FTP client program called Filezilla to upload files to server. Add connection to iPage server (info provided by your iPage signup email).

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From the ipage vdeck control panel, in the installcentral, we find the CMF forum scripts are being provided and running the latest version. We are using the installer to perform quick installation, error free and fast script installation. Database is created by the installer, and we choose the directory path to install it. Done in just second, if you are using cpanle with fantastico, its similar thing here with vdeck installcentral. We were being able to visit the ipage smf forum site, tested it, and its too are working fine without problems. If you get error or problem during smf forum setup installation at ipage hosting, get it posted here and we will help you to get it solve.

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“Simple Machines Forum, SMF in short, is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. SMF is written in the popular language PHP and uses a MySQL database. It is designed to provide you with all the features you need from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server.“

From our previous testing, we setup phpBB forum at ipage hosting, and via the iPage vDeck Installcentral to complete the installation task. And for vBulletin forum site, we have to manually upload the PHP scripts to server, configure the configuration files and setup it at iPage hosting manually, all are done via FTP uploading and web browser. Its a tedious work to bring up a vBulletin forum site, that is why we more prefer phpBB forum scripts instead. Our vBulletin setup testing at iPage hosting carried out smoothly and completed the testing in shortest time, its not our first time installing it online. For beginner it might take up to 30 minutes of time, make sure you follow the readme file and have some web hosting experience to put this online.

Shared web hosting plan is only suitable for small size vBulletin forum websites, not recommended for high traffic vBulletin forum site. It would easily exceeded the usage permission, regardless it is iPage hosting or any other shared web hosting plan. We always recommend larger forum site to be hosted in VPS hosting plan with decent RAM and performance, a dedicated server would be even better if you have the budget. Hosting a forum might seem costly but it is one of the easiest type of website to setup and no HTML coding skill requires. User can setup any type of forum site, grow it with more visitors, and earn some great money via advertising and sponsorship. Some professional forum site made more than $10,000 dollars each month via PPC advertising profit alone. Forum website have huge potential.

Ipage hosting is compatible for phpBB, SMF forum, and also vBulletin forum scripts. And you can signup iPage now at discount price, activate the iPage coupon discount link for special promo pricing of $2.95/mo only!

Ipage special promo price is just $2.99/mo and we would like to test phpBB web site hosting in it. To begin with phpbb forum discussion site installation, we need to login ipage vdeck and get to the install center, and goes to the forum scripts. From here the phpBB forum script are provided for easy & quick installation. Click the begin installation to start the installer, and the phpbb version 3 is available for installation. You need to create a new mysql database to be use by the installer to install the phpbb forum. Later complete the installation by create a new admin user name and password for your new phpbb forum site. Select the directory or subdirectory or domain name to setup this phpbb scripts, and it should be setup in second once you click on the install NOW button.

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“php Bulletin Board (phpBB) is one of the most popular community forums available, trusted by millions ranging from small, personal communities to heavily-trafficked corporate sites. phpBB allows site visitors post and comment (with attachments like images, documents, video streams and archives) on different discussion topics, usually related to a site’s content. phpBB is recommended for beginners to expert web users.“

Ipage hosting are with vdeck control panel and with installcentral, an online tool that provide quick scripts installation, similar to Fantastico that you find in cpanel control panel. Beside phpBB and SMF forum scripts, you can find more forum script in vdeck compare to cpanel. And only in ipage vdeck, you are also getting the Gbook forum scripts.

We are currently testing and reviewing ipage hosting for forum website, we will test the installation process, and identify any problems found, and post the forum setup installation guide in this ipage review site in future. Meantime, you can use the ipage installcentral to setup phpBB, smf, and Gbook from at your ipage hosting account.

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