Creating and running a discussion forum

[temi]

You need to do a lot of work to get more members and start making money so that you can move to a more professional hosting platform.

I am having the same problems as my site is a couple of months old and still I have under 40 members, the good thing is that proboards hosts the site for free so this site is costing me nothing so far

[bacardi]

Well, right now I am still just learning and making money is not my objective since I am just doing it because I like to post and I dont like to just post on other people's forums and having to go by there rules all the time!

Mind you if money is to be made that would be a definate bonus but as of now just to have the satisfaction of building a nice forum with hundreds of members is all that I am looking for!

[hendrahy]

Can you advice, which one is better to use, phpbb or vbulletin, and what are the differents?

[temi]

You should do some homework too, visit phpBB website and visit vBulletin and compare their features.