- ActiveBoard, by Sparklit
- Free message boards with ads, or monthly fee without. Also offers polls and surveys, ad management, and other tools.
- Aimoo
- Free message boards, chat rooms, and polling.
- AnyBoard
- Free message boards. Also available as licensed software.
- Armbell
- Free message boards using phpBB software.
- Boardhost
- Free message boards with banner ads, or monthly fee for service without ads.
- BoardServer, by MyComputer.com
- Monthly fee.
- Board Zero
- Free message boards using phpBB.
- Bravenet
- Free message boards and many other tools, including mailing lists, guestbooks, polls, chat rooms,
classified ads, instant messaging, and more.
- BuildBoard
- Free message boards. Appears to require Asian fonts.
- BulletinBoards.com
- Fixed monthly fee; no ads, no traffic or bandwidth charges. Offers threaded, nonthreaded,
and "semithreaded" message boards, and multiple forums within your main board. Offers
full participation by email as well as through the web. Also includes an optional group calendar.
- ByteCenter
- Has stopped offering message boards, but plans to do so again.
- CommunityZero, by Ramius Corp.
- Annual fee. Offers online communities featuring message boards and other collaborative tools.
Formerly known as Vicinities.
- Conforums
- Free message boards with banner ads, or monthly fee for service without ads.
- DiscussionApp II, by Server Corp.
- Free message boards with banner ads, or annual fee for service without ads.
- DiscussionOnTheWeb, by JADA Productions
- Fee-based. Also available as a product.
- Echelon Forums
- Free, ad-supported message boards.
- ezboard
- Free; ad-supported message boards.
- ForumCo
- Apparently still in business but not accepting new signups as of May 2009.
Free forums with ads; small fee for message boards without ads.
- Forumer
- Free message boards using Invision Power Board software.
- ForumHoster
- Free message boards using Invision Power Board
and phpBB2 software.
- Forums4Free
- Free message boards with ads; or fee without ads.
- ForumForFree
- Free, ad-supported message boards using Invision Power Board.
- ForumsPlace
- Message board hosting using phpBB.
Free with ads, or monthly fee without.
- forumSpring
- Message boards using phpBB. Free with advertising,
or fee with no ads.
- Free Boards, by Armia Systems
- Free message boards using Invision Power Board; no ads.
- Free CGI Web Forum
- Free message boards with banner ads, or monthly fee for service without ads.
- Free-Forum
- Free message boards using Invision Power Board
or phpBB.
- FreeForums.org
- Free phpBB forums featuring
unlimited bandwidth, no ads, customization options, 24/7 support.
- Free-Forums.org
- Free message boards using phpBB.
- Free Forum World
- Free message boards using phpBB.
- FreeIBBoard
- Free, ad-supported message boards using Invision Power Board.
- FreeIBforums
- Free message boards using Invision Power Board
or phpBB.
- FreeInvisionBoard (aka RxMB)
- Free message boards using Invision Power Board.
- FreeMinZ
- Free message boards using Invision Power Board
or phpBB. No ads.
- FreeMyForum
- Free, ad-supported message boards using phpBB.
- FreePowerBoards
- Free, ad-supported message boards.
- GetFreeBB
- Free message boards using Invision Power Board software.
- GoBoardz
- Free, ready-to-use discussion boards, RSS feeds of active topics, unlimited categories and subscriptions.
- GreatBoard
- Free, ad-supported message boards using phpBB.
- Groupboard
- Simple message board, chat rooms, and whiteboards, all based on Java.
Free for limited usage, fee for larger numbers of users.
- HWForums, by HighWired Internet Innovations (formerly DBasics Software)
- Monthly fee. Message boards are based on WWWBoard.
- Hyperboards
- Free message boards with banner ads, or monthly fee for service without ads.
- i-Depth
- Monthly fee. Also offers chat, classified ads, shopping carts, and other tools.
- iforumer
- Free forum hosting and message boards. Unlimited storage, categories, members.No pop-ups. Registration required.
- informe
- Free Forum, Wiki, Blog and Pligg hosting. No size limits, no post or topic number limits, no banners or pop-up windows,
instant activation. Partnered with phpBB
- InvisionFree
- Free message boards using Invision Power Board. Ad supported.
- Invision Power Boards
- Monthly fee. Also available as a free software product.
- Jconserv
- One of the largest free forum hosts, offering ad-supported forums using phpBB.
- Kazorum
- Free forums using phpBB
- Lefora
- Free forums with an updated Web 2.0 look, and a feature set informed by popular social networking sites.
Offers simple photo and video posting, WYSIWYG editor, unread message tracking, email notifications,
RSS feeds, spam filtering, and a choice of themes, including a classic look similar to phpBB.
- LiveBoards
- Monthly fee.
- Message-boards.net
- Fixed monthly fee; no ads, no traffic or bandwidth charges. Offers threaded, nonthreaded,
and "semithreaded" message boards, and multiple forums within your main board. Offers
full participation by email as well as through the web. Also includes an optional group calendar.
- Messageboarder
- Free phpBB hosting. No banners or popups. Multilingual. Valid email address, email activation required.
- MinuteBoard
- Extremely simple message board that you can embed within a frame in any web page.
There are no administrative access controls, so it is only appropriate for public forums.
(It does require registration with a valid email address.) Free service with no ads.
- MyProBB
- Secure web forum designed with many business-oriented features, ie:anti-spammer, anti-SQL injection code,
anti-HTML injection code, post moderation stops for language control, scalable. Very low licensing
fee for business users. Free for personal use. Free trial.
-
Nabble
- Allows embedding a forum into your own web site simply by copying and pasting a line of javascript code into your HTML page.
Also offers embeddable blogs, photo galleries, and other features.
- Network54 (formerly Netbabbler)
- Free, ad-supported message boards, blogs, chat rooms, and other community tools.
- Nexus Free Forums / Free Message Boards
- Free message boards.
- Online Institute LLC
- Forum hosting using SMF. Many features such as multiple
boards, built-in search, polling, setting preferences, unread topic tracking.
PHP and MySQL. One-time setup fee,
low monthly fee.
- Onvix
- Monthly fee. Hosts message boards using WebBoard.
- PeekForum
- Free message boards using SMF.
- phpbbhost
- Free forum hosting.
- phpBB-Host
- Offers message boards using Invision Power Board
or phpBB. Free with ads, or small fee for
message board without ads.
- Pinguinite
- Offers inexpensive forum hosting using their own software with some unique features. Your domain or
pinguinite.com. Free download available as well, with an install program doing most of the set-up.
- Precision Forums
- Paid forum hosting based on vBulletin. Offers several
levels of service, including your own domain name.
- ProBoards
- Free, ad-supported message boards.
- QuickTopic
- Free message boards. This is probably the easiest and quickest place to set up a single-topic message board.
The Pro version (with a small annual fee) adds some nice features.
- Ready Bulletin Board
- Monthly fee. Hosts message boards using phpBB. Offers a selection
of templates you can use to change the look of your board, or modify the templates to suit yourself.
- RunBoard
- Free message boards.
- Snitz Forums 2000
- Free message boards with "powered by" statement on your page.
- Sudden Launch
- Free message boards with banner ads, or monthly fee for service without ads.
- TalkThis
- Message boards using phpBB. Free with ads,
fee-based premium service without ads.
- VoyForums
- Free, ad-supported message boards.
- WebGroups
- Annual fee. Message board hosting using Invision Power Board or
phpBB.
- WebPost
- Free message boards with their banner ads, or monthly fee without ads.
You can create an entire Web site here for free, and use
their message boards, guestbooks, and other tools.
- WebringAmerica
- Free message boards with no ads using phpBB.
-
Website Toolbox
- Inexpensive web tools, including message boards, guestbook, polls, statistics loggers, and others. No banner or popup ads.
- WhatHelps?
- Monthly fee. Offers a variety of community tools including message boards, chat rooms,
email discussion lists, newsletters, polls, and classifieds, in a package or a la carte basis.
- Wimba Voice Forums
- Free, ad-supported message boards. Both voice and text messages can be posted.
- World Crossing
- Free, ad-supported. Offers public and private message boards and chat rooms.
This service is offered by the makers of the popular
Web Crossing forum software.
- Yabbers
- Free, ad-supported message boards using Invision Power Board.
- YourFreeBB
- Free forum host; customizable, small URL, versatile permission and ban management, supports multiple languages.
- YY2
- Free, ad-supported service featuring YaBB message boards.
- 12BB
- German language message board service, offering four different software platforms.
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