If you want to establish a forum website, then in this time you should invest with real money. To get start with blog, you can choose free blogging software and use online free blog like blogger which allow you to place your own advertisement banner and publisher program, but you are rarely and hardly to find out the free forum site which allow you to create free forum AND allow you to put your own advertisement.
However, we can guide you to start a new forum website with RM 0 investment. After you grow bigger enough, then only move and transfer to paid hosting like shared hosting, vps, even dedicated server. We tell you how later in this post.
Firstly, let’s choose the forum software. There are some popular forum software:
- Simple Machines Forum (SMF) – Free
- phpBB – Free
- Invision Power Board – New USD$ 149.99 (~ RM 500) ; Renew (every 6 months) USD$ 25 (~ RM 83)
- vBulletin – New USD$ 195 (~ RM 645) ; Upgrade USD$ 175 (~ RM 580)
Depends which you like, we prefer SMF, because it frequently upgrade and ‘good looking’ generally compare to phpBB. But it’s all depend on yourself, just visit the both official website above and compare your own.
Basically SMF and phpBB require only PHP 4 and MySQL to run, as long as any web hosting support that 2 features, then you can install it. We strongly recommend to go with linux hosting instead of windows hosting due to stability and security.
Before choosing a Free hosting, get your Free domain name first, instead of buying an expensive dot com. Information on how to get a free domain, you can visit out main site here (http://www.rmvalues.com/free/free-domain.html).
For a cheap dot com (.com) or other domain extension, you may try GoDaddy.com.
A little tricks to get cheaper GoDaddy domain – Go to Google, Search ‘Cheap Domain’, then click the GoDaddy ads on top, then you will see GoDaddy domain sales for just USD$ 6.89 + USD$ 0.18 ICANN fee, total only USD$ 7.07 (~ RM 23.50).
Now you may start choosing the correct Free web hosting provider.
These 2 hosting are some of the most reliable hosting. Although 110MB hosting is one of the most reliable hosting, but it doesn’t support MySQL in free hosting, and you have to pay little money to obtain this feature, so we excluded it in our case. You might want to try 110MB and pay 1 time fee $9.95 (~ RM 33).
After successful create your free hosting account, you can start download the forum software and upload to your hosting and install it. Tutorial can be obtained from the particular forum software website. Or we can help you to install it for just RM 5/installation. Contact us for more details! 
Tomorrow, we will tell you how to get start with simple HTML website instead of forum or blog.
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