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Message Board or community forum allow your visitors participate in discussions. Having a message board on your web site is a reason for the visitors to come back.

Popular message boards are vBulletin, phpBB and Invision Board. VBulletin and Invision Board is paid scripts. phpBB is open source script available for free. phpBB is power full, but it is also known for its vulnerabilities, that allow a hacker to hack your web site.

So if you install phpBB, you should keep the software upgraded, or your site can get hacked. Many users install and forget the script, hackers find these scripts from search engines and hack the web site.

If you don't know or don't have time to keep your phpBB upgraded, its better to use hosted phpBB forums, with hosted phpBB forum, you don't have to upgrade the software yourself, service provider will do it for you.

You can get free hosted phpBB forums from

http://www.netfreehost.com/phpbb/
http://www.phpbbweb.com

Free Invision Board Forums From

http://hosted.bizhat.com
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