Our servers are located in a high security datacenter in the USA. We use high quality servers at a high quality datacenter which is manned 24 hours a day 7 days a week. So should there be a problem we will be able to get our servers back online immediately. We also backup all data held on our servers on a weekly basis.

ForumsVibe offers all of our forums unlimited webspace and bandwidth, so you never have to worry about your forum getting shut down because it becomes too popular. We also use premium bandwidth to ensure your sites load as quickly as possible.

Forums Vibe utilizes phpBB v3. Below you will find a list of the features of this great piece of free software.

Security

Designed with security as a priority

Powerful and extensive authorization system

Strong encryption to keep passwords safe in the database

Unlimited Forums & Categories

Unlimited forums can be organized into as many categories as you like

Private forums and those only for specified user groups

Powerful search facility

Posting Messages

Message formatting with various font styles and sizes as well as allowing quoting, code display, image posting and automatic URL linking

Support of standard and extended BBCode tags and controlled HTML tags

Polls can be simply added to posts

Email notification of replies to your topics

Powerful topic subscription capability

Original emoticons to portray emotions

Versatile User Groups & Forum Permissions

Powerful forum, user and group permission management

Control forum access to specified user groups

Control all aspects of the posting experience

Allow limited access to viewing, posting, replying and many other options

Member Features

Unlimited members

Personal profile creation

Post counting and administrator-definable ranks for users

Email-like private messaging system

Supports local, remote and unloadable avatars

Moderation Features

Topic editing

Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts

Topic splitting

Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages on a per-forum basis

Easy to Use Administration Centre

General configuration

Forum & category setup

Disallowed usernames

User authorization

Word censoring

Complete member management

Emoticon setup

Optional new post verification

Extensive ban management, ban by email address, username or single/multiple IP address or hostname

IP tracking of posts and posters

Mass emailing of groups and users by the administrator

Style and Customisation

Multiple styles available for the user to choose from

Complete control of fonts and colors with cascading style sheets (CSS)

Default style compliant with XHTML 1.0 and HTML 4.01 recommendations from the W3C