TweetContent Management System Forums are all about allowing the content on your web presence to be created by any website visitor and potential fan of your band and music. You can create topical discussion on which to bring new discussion angles. Update your band news to the forum to see what the subscribers have to say.

Believe it or not, community forums are very easy to manage and install. There is no real use for using forums hosted elsewhere, such as freeboards.  Once you have purchased web site hosting your ready to go with your own band community.

A self hosted forum can be tracked how and when you want, styled to match your brand/website and ran how you think it needs to be managed. With other benefits such as loads of content created for you, backlinks pointing towards a website you own there is no need to wait any longer, have a look through the available open source content management system and get your community talking. You can learn how to install your own band community in minutes.

SMF
“Home of SMF: Free PHP and MySQL forum software”

http://www.simplemachines.org/

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Phbbb

“phpBB is a free flat-forum bulletin board software solution that can be used to stay in touch with a group of people or can power your entire website.”

http://www.phpbb.com/

Page Rank: 5

Alexa Rank: 2,961

Vanilla Forums
“Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web. Anyone can download and use the Vanilla forum package with no limitations for free!”

http://vanillaforums.org/

Page Rank: 6

Alexa Rank: 36,513

Bbpress

“bbPress is plain and simple forum software, plain and simple. It’s easy to use, easy to administrate, fast and clean.”

http://bbpress.org/

Page Rank: 7

Alexa Rank: 11,752

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