IX Web Hosting phpBB Review
PhpBB (short for php Bulletin Board) is forum software for creating online communities. It is free open-source, licensed under GNU GPL license. It offers many features found in paid ones of this kind. Some features are: powerful user/permissions setup with usergroups, moderators, administrators, access control lists, create forums, subforums, internationalization/localization, user registration with captcha validation(optional), bbcode and many others, check the official website: http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/ . Template and extension systems are also one of the features available. PHPBB is built with php (the best web programming language!) and uses mysql database as a storage. Several other database systems are also supported: postgresql, mssql, oracle, firebird, sqlite and others. Since its creation in 2000, it have become the most popular free internet forum software. There is large phpbb community of users, individuals and developers. So if you do not have money to buy software like vbulletin, phpbb or mybb is the choice for your next online community.
I have tested phpbb on Ix Web Hosting, and it runs great. Though I think that for serious website, you will need vbulletin. PHPbb can be installed manually or via the one-click installer control panel tool.