1. You need a web server provider (most ISPs hate you hosting website pages from home)
TWO. You need discussion board software (vBulletin, Invision are some great ones for that $$$, phpBB may be a free alternative)
3. You need an excellent topic, with a little something unique, in order to acquire (and keep! ) users
Well, you will need to firstly have a domain name and hosting, that’s compatable with the actual forum software. After youdo that I recommend, looking into vbulletin as well as phpbb, depending how much you are going to spend.
I’d personally look directly into vbulletin, it is the best forum application on the market, and although its the most expensive it’s worth it.
There are still free forum software packages out there
vanilla
phpBB
Plus more… but I feel these are a very common
vBulletin is on no account the most high priced; there is community software that costs over $10, 000 and there’s software that’s free.
Which forum would it be that costs much… and it have to be something pretty specific to cost that sort of money
vBulletin’s a superb value for the amount of money.