SMF Software – Free One-Click Forum Installation and Hosting

Discussion Board – SMF Forum Overview

SMF – purpose and application?
Wishing to establish an online community of your own for zero time, and wondering how to get it started, what software to choose – one that you can trust unconditionally, avoiding any contact with the PHP programming codes and the MySQL administration?

Available on the web since 2004, and not by chance named SMF (Simple Machines Forum), this PHP open-source software is aimed at providing the users with an excellent platform for starting and managing their online community website, ensuring effortless and professionally configured initiation of their  project.

How do I benefit from SMF forum as a user?
SMF is a freeware package software written in PHP – the popular programming language used for writing applications characterized by great flexibility and customizability in terms of functionality and utilization. This script will provide you with everything you need to launch your personal or business discussion bulletin board, without any need to operate with the server resources. Thanks to its powerful template system, you are able to fully control the overall appearance of your forum, and even let your forum interact with your website via the in-built SSI (Server Side Includes) function. SMF supports around 40 languages and offers a highly intuitive interface equipped with a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. The script ensures also a very handy administration with a lot of useful facilities provided – email templates, in-built warning system, possibility for strict content control, even over the users’ signatures, improved upgrade script with better timeout protection, a number of permission improvements, and many others.

Lonex’s One-Click Installer – the free, easy and simple installation of SMF
Apart from being amazingly simple for support and modification up to your requirements, SMF is also very easy for installation thanks to the One-click Installer platform provided by Lonex web hosting. With this exceptionally user-friendly online assistant you can install quickly and professionally SMF, as well as more than 30 other PHP scripts, through a brief few-clicks all-automated installation process. Don’t bother to manage the whole time-consuming processing of the Apache server set up, and the MySQL and phpMyAdmin settings. We’ve already done all that for you! Simply enter your name and the name of your website, and after a few simple input records, your online community building tool will be entirely to your service!

SMF  optimized web hosting on Lonex's semi-cluster Quad-core server platform

Lonex’s Free Bonuses with our SMF  web hosting plans: an automatic SMF installation, a free one-click scripts installer, free website templates, free marketing tools, a free website builder and a free domain name!

By ordering a SMF forum optimized web hosting plan from Lonex web hosting you save over $50 (that’s how much a single SMF  installation by a freelance specialist would have cost you). This is due to the fact that each SMF  hosting plan goes hand in hand with a free, automated SMF  installation. The free bonuses courtesy of Lonex web hosting do not end with the free SMF forum software installation. Beside SMF , our optimized one-click installer offers free automatic installation of over 30 PHP Scripts (CMS, forum, photo gallery, and more).  With each SMF  forum hosting plan you get a free domain name.

We give each of our clients also a free web design tool – Site Studio. With it, everyone can create their own website without having to possess special web design and HTML programming knowledge. You will receive as a gift also one of our professional web templates.

SMF  hosting on Lonex's optimized platform (powered by last generation Quad-Core Servers).
The longstanding experience in the field of hosting technologies has brought Lonex to the creation of a semi-cluster hosting platform (up to 15 times faster than the widespread one-server hosting platforms), thanks to which our super powerful last generation Quad-Core servers distribute the load generated by the different hosting services between each other. For the sake of a better performance and quality service level guarantees of the web hosting plans offered by Lonex, we’ve optimized our platform to work not only with SMF (Simple Machines Forum), but also with the rest of the more than 30 PHP scripts available in our Free One-Click Script Installer.