Want an affordable forum hosting plan? Basically shared web hosting plan can be divided into three category based on their quality, namely basic, professional and business web hosting plans. Basic plan is with budget come first and offer less in features. Professional plan is design for webmaster who having few websites and require some decent processing power.

Finally, there is business plan that is designed for eCommerce and website conducting online transaction which require the best reliability and security. When come to choosing forum website hosting, the professional web hosting plan is the right starting place and not the basic plan!

If you are running forum websites created with phpBB, SMF, or vBulletin, then you can select Hostgator hosting as your next forum hosting plan. Hostgator shared hosting is superior with perfect server uptime (over the Internet) and fast responsive server. We are recommending this Hostgator BABY plan as starting, its price is as following

1. Price starting at $7.95/mo (if you not using any coupon code!)
2. Price starting at $6.36/mo (if you use default coupon for 20% discount!)
3. Price starting at $5.96/mo (if you use HOSTGATOR371 coupon for 25% discount!)

If you insist to use the basic plan and planning to host a small scale forum site, the HATCHLING plan priced from $3.71/mo (after 25% discount) is the cheapest answer. However, we are recommending the above BABY plan for most forum site.

From their cPanel control panel, there is QuickInstall one-click installer for installing various open-source apps. In here, you will find forum apps as following:

1. bbPress
2. MyBB
3. phpBB
4. punBB
5. Simple Machines Forum (SMF)
6. Advanced Electron Forum

Here is the screenshot taken from our account

Once your forum site is growing larger and when need more server processing power, you can upgrade to VPS hosting or dedicated server that have more superior performance. They have few VPS plans and dedicated servers to choose from.

In this Hostgator review site, we have conducted few forum sites setup and installation. Here are some of our experience

1. bbPress forum site testing
2. SMF forum site hosting
3. punBB forum site testing
4. phpBB forum site testing
5. vBulletin forum site testing

From our testing, this is one of the best place to host forum websites!

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