SMF Hosting FAQ

What Is SMF?

You may start your own community on the professional and free Simple Machines Forum (SMF) forum. With the help of SMF, you can quickly and simply create a community or forum website in a matter of minutes. With the help of SMF’s specially created templates, you may fully customize your message board. The ability to allow interaction between your website and forum using SSI, or server side includes, is one of SMF’s most distinctive features.

SMF is designed in PHP and it also utilizes a MySQL database. It provides the user with all the necessary features needed to form a bulletin board and to maintain it. SMF is also designed in a way so that it has minimum impact on the server resources. SMF is a full fledged forum software and the best thing is that it is free.

What Are The Hosting Requirements For SMF?

Space required for installing SMF:

Required Space : 7.07 MB

SMF Features : Why Should You Consider Using SMF?

Here are some of the most striking features off SMF:

• SMF is efficient, powerful open source and free
• SMF comprises of newly created template system that enable you to perform any number of custom edits
• SMF provides support for multiple languages
• It provides tracking for new and old unread topics, apart from tracking for your last visit
• Package manager is provided that automatically installs or uninstalls the mods
• SMF provides better options for search engine optimization of your community
• With SMF, all the actions on your message board require a session based authorization code
• Major actions performed on the message board are time and IP locked, thus preventing ‘hammering’
• The number of login attempts from any particular IP can be limited and time locked if required
• You can put your board in the maintenance mode for modifications, this mode allows only the admins to login
• You can create sub-boards and configure permissions for each of the member groups on the board level
• Along with the standard registration fields, you can also add custom registration fields and you can decide whether they are required or not
• Both cookie and session based authentication is provided by SMF
• A public member list is provided that is sort-able or searchable
• You can easily create announcement boards

Hostvento Hosting For Simple Machines Forum (SMF)

The full fledged Indian web hosting packages provided by Hostvento are crafted in a way so as to save you a lot of time and money. If you would like to use SMF for setting up a community website, you can count on Hostvento hosting. Hostvento team will ensure that your community website through SMF is running smoothly and that your website is safe and fast.