Welcome to phpBBHS.com

This website is a home to phpBB 3 forum hosting script.

With phpBB 3 forum hosting script users can automatically setup forums on your server, you have full control over their forums.

phpBB 3 forum hosting script features

Script uses only one set of files to run thousands of forums, and every forum has its own tables in database not shared with other forums.
Modular control panel where you can administrate all forums. Because control panel is modular, you can add/remove features yourself by adding or removing modules.
Multiple databases. Administrator can select which database new forums will be using, move forums from one database to another for load balancing between database servers.
Subdomains for forums. All hosted forums will have their own subdomains, like user1.domain.com, user2.domain.com, etc...
Multiple domain names, custom domain names. You can setup as many domain names as you want, so users could select which one to use. For example, a user can use myforum.domain1.com or myforum.domain2.com if you setup domain1.com and domain2.com. You can also assign custom domains to any forums, so owner of that forum could use his own domain name.
If more than one domain is available, forum owners can choose which domain to use during registration and can change it any time later from control panel.
You can search, edit, delete, suspend any forum hosted on your server. Search function lets you search hosted forum by multiple parameters.
You can easily insert advertizing to forums from phpBBHS control panel. Ads can be placed in header, footer, near copyright in footer and custom ad locations can be added easily. Ads can be adsense compliant (being shown only on content pages), or being shown on all pages. You can enable/disable ads for every forum, or set custom ads for forum or all forum that use certain domain.
Attachments are disabled by default, but you can enable it for any forum without affecting other forums.
Registration form is easily customizable, includes visual confirmation, forum names are filtered with ability to instantly ban visitor on attempt to use censored word, you can ban IPs and email providers (all disposable email providers are already added to that list and you can change it), there are several settings to block spam and flood attempts. You can set registrations to check user's email address by sending him validation email, also you can set all registrations to be validated by you. Inactive registrations are automatically deleted after certain time (customizable). You can also create forums and test registration form from control panel.
You can run sql queries on single forums, whole databases, several selected forums, backup forums.
Mass email. You can send emails to admins of all hosted forums, or selected forums from search results.
Word filter for hosted forums. You can disallow certain words to be posted on all hosted forums with ability to ban user on attempt to post text that contains certain filtered word.
You can change configuration for all hosted forums from phpBBHS control panel.
You can manage acp/ucp/mcp phpBB modules for all hosted forums from phpBBHS control panel.
Hosted forum do not have access to settings that might cause problems, such as SMTP settings, acp/ucp/mcp modules, database backup/restore, templates editor and many other settings.
Administrators of hosted forums can upload custom logos, edit imageset and css for styles. Styles do not require any modifications in order to work with phpBBHS.
You can login as administrator on any hosted forum at any time.
You can set permissions for forum styles, so only selected forums could use a certain style, which can be used to upload custom styles for hosted forums without other hosted forums having access to it.
Easy website content administration (small CMS with powerful template system). Website is SEO friendly, includes directory of hosted forums and news you can add/remove in phpBBHS control panel. Website is easy to translate to your language because all text constants are in one language file and website template files.
phpBB forum hosting script can run from a subdirectory, such as http://your_host/v3/, so you can use it on existing hosting website, such as phpBB 2 hosting website.
Additional anti-spam and flood control features.
...and many more features. You can add more features yourself by writing a module for control panel, or downloading a module shared by some other coder.

Server requirements

Linux server. It might work on windows server if you are able to make certain directories writable, but script is supported only on Linux server.
Apache with mod_rewrite. Script might work on other servers or without mod_rewrite, but apache+mod_rewrite are recommended.
GD php module with FreeType support. It is not a requirement, but it is recommended as image verification uses GD to create images. If you don't know how to enable GD module on your server, check support forum for documentation.
Dedicated IP address. Any dedicated server, VPS or reseller account has at least one dedicated IP address, so it shouldn't be a problem.
Wildcard DNS for subdomains, so domains like anything.your_domain.com would work. If you don't know how to setup it on your host, use third party dns servers such as EveryDNS. Its very easy to setup and will not be a problem.
mySQL. Currently there are no plans to support any other databases.

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If you have any questions regarding script or server requirements please use contact form or support forum.