[rakesh_1024]

Iam interested in hosting a forum for my collegemates.
I am new to this field.
So what should I b knowing beforehand?
I also wanna know the entire procedure?
And is there any program to make my job easier?

.........eagerly waiting for Ur replies.

[office politics]

try www.phpbb.com ... its FREE!!! Awesome support too.

[rakesh_1024]

I visited the website. It says that it does not offer free web hostiing.

[shan]

there are some "free" forum site out there, but, you get what you pay for really. your best bet would be to get a webserver and pay like $5 a month and do it that way, you'll be able to customize your board and stuff whereas many free forum sites will not allow you to do so..

[Heylinder]

Here's a site I've paid for the last couple years but not actually run ... it's my son's toy http://www.ipowerweb.com . We;ve been very happy with what it offers for the money and it's customer service. Plus I only recall once in the last two years that the server has been down

[digitaloracle]

phpbb is a set of php files you can use if you have a webserver w/ php and sql.

[ATIRAGEPRO]

www.Phpbbhacks.com/templates

there are Free downloads of forums. (I'm there all the time.)