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Jcink is probably my favorite free forum host online, it's one of the only free forum hosts that allows you to download a backup of your forum. There's also quite a few awesome themes you can easily install, and there's a community of people willing to help when you run into issues. I feel that most roleplaying forums tend to use this service, but lots of people who made the switch from Zetaboards after they got bought out by Tapatalk to Jcink. You also don't have to pay anything extra to use your own domain name either, most other free forum hosts make you pay a fee to upgrade your account to do so.
 
I have never used free forum hosting, I have two forums, one is built on wordpress with wpforo plugin, and another uses SMF forum script and hosted with namecheap. One of the major issues with free forum hosting is you cannot take your forum to another platform, for example, on your own servers (there might be some exceptions, though).
 
nomad said:
I have never used free forum hosting, I have two forums, one is built on wordpress with wpforo plugin, and another uses SMF forum script and hosted with namecheap. One of the major issues with free forum hosting is you cannot take your forum to another platform, for example, on your own servers (there might be some exceptions, though).
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With jcink you can pay and move to your own hosting at a later date.

I have ysed a few free ones.

Invisionfree - No longer around based off Invision 1.3 - early versions of Invision Power Board
Zetaboards- Was create by invisionfree to become the next version, now owned by tapatalk and it went to poop.
IPBFree - old no longer around was based off of invision 1.3 then then went to a 2.0 version
Createaforum - Mybb multiboard platform
Jcink - Invision 1.3 powered
various PHPBB hosted forums, proboards,

Started on Invisionfree and went to IPB 2.x, used PHPBB, SMF, Invision Power Boards 1.3 +, Xenforo, vbulletin 3.8 and 4, never used 5, MyBB, bbPress, and many more that use to be around that are no longer around.
 
I have used Jcink myself in the past when I wanted to start a forum and see where it went. I was happy that I used Jcink as I was able to move my database from Jcink to a Xenforo forum when I wanted to move once the forum had kicked off and was doing well and the process went smoothly as well which was awesome. I would use Jcink again in a heart beat if I needed to.
 
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