What is ProBoards?
ProBoards is the most used forum service, hosting over 3,000,000 internet forums, of about 22,800,000 users, for a total of 600 million pageviews per month! These data are already giving you some tips about the nature and the scalability of ProBoards. According to Wikipedia, ProBoards is hosted on 71 servers, to support the load that the traffic among forum.
The software behind is written in PERL, connected to a replicated MySQL database. All forum are hosted under a chosen subdomain of the *.proboards.com and they can be created and maintained for free, if you accept the display of some advertisements. For people interesting in removing these ads, prices start from $7 for 50,000 pageviews a month and go up to $140 for 1,000,000 pageviews. More details on the ProBoards pricing page. According to our previous experiences on Ad-free hosting services, ProBoards is among the cheapest service.
Now, let's see what you get for this.
Review Updates:
- January 28, 2011: First Review.