Boardhost.com Product Details
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Features:
The following details were taken directly from the Boardhost.com website.
Instant Account Creation
No waiting around for your board to be set up, after you sign up your board will be instantly accessible, and ready for you to customize!
Reliable Remotely Hosted Service
Your message board will be remotely hosted on our high–speed servers, which offer outstanding reliability and uptime. We will place no usage or bandwidth restrictions on your message board.
Friendly Technical Support
Have questions about using our service or one of our features? We’re here to help. Just visit our contact section and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible!
Threaded Message Board System
Boardhost uses a threaded message board system, which means you won't have to read through old messages time and time again to locate the newest messages posted to your board.
Instant Upgrades
We are constantly working to improve our service. When we develop new features, they will immediately be available for you to use on your board.
Instant Updates
Most settings and appearance changes you make to your board are instant. For instance, if you change your board’s background color, or add a background image to your board, all messages on your board will instantly be updated to the new appearance.
Short Message Board URL
Your message board will have a short, easy to remember URL, such as
http://members.boardhost.com/YourName/
Message Limits
Depending on your Boardhost Service Plan, your board will be able to hold anywhere from 500 to 2,500 messages (our archive plan provides a 25,000 message archive as well). When your board’s message limit is reached, the oldest thread will be automatically removed to make room for newer messages.
Each message posted to your board can contain up to 10,000 characters, and if you like you can even have a countdown showing how many characters are remaining.
Message Board Settings
Allow Polls
Board users love polls! By enabling this option, your users will be able to include a custom poll when starting a new message, simply by providing a question, and up to 10 possible answers to that question. Anyone who views their message will be able to vote in the poll. (Don’t worry, we have measures to prevent cheating in the poll too!)
Allow Email Notifications
Make sure someone who posts a message comes back to read their replies! This option will place a checkbox underneath the posting form allowing that user to be notified by email of all replies to their message.
Allow HTML in Postings
It’s up to you. HTML enabled posts can allow your visitors to have a lot of fun, using bold, or colorful text, italics, including images, the possibilities are endless. (We have a Basic Message Board HTML Code Guide available too)
Spell Check
Our Spell Check option is currently available only with our paid service plans. It adds a “Spell Check” link above the posting form on your board. At any time while someone is composing their message, it will open a new window pointing out possible misspellings, and showing suggested corrections. When the user is done spell checking, their original message will be instantly updated!
IP Address Stamping
This can be a great way to add some responsibility to your board’s users. If enabled, the user’s IP address will be stamped at the top of each of their postings. You can enable full IP address display, or a partial IP address display, where only the first 3 octets will be shown (192.168.199.X might appear, for instance)
Spam Control
If someone tries to flood your message board with postings, our spam control option could stop them! This option will restrict a user from posting again within the period of time you specify. For instance, you can set up spam control with a 2 minute interval, this will require a 2 minute wait between postings. The interval can be anywhere from 1 to 60 minutes, or you can choose not to use this feature.
Smileys
Add some fun to your board! This is one of our most popular features. When enabled, all you'd need to do to include a in your post, is include “:)” anywhere in your message. There are 30 smiley images available, and you even have the option of having the full smiley set included underneath your posting form, so that all a poster would need to do to include a smiley is click on the one they like!
Message search
Add a message search box the the top, bottom, or both places on your board. Your visitors will instantly be able to find posts by keyword, or by entering the name of a poster who’s messages they’d like to find.
Choose your Date and Time Format
Prefer August 15, 2006 or 8/15/2006? How about even 15/8/2006? Not a problem! How about time? Prefer 2:46 PM or 14:46:22? It’s up to you!
Choose your Time Zone
Our Time zone offset option allows you to choose the exact time zone you’d like your board to operate in.
Suspend Board Activity
At any time, you can choose to suspend all activity on your board. New messages will not be permitted with this option enabled, however you can still make administrative posts and replies (more information below). Some of our users have this option enabled at all times, so they can just use their board to post announcements or news. You can also choose to only permit replies. This could permit you to start new threads using administrative posts, but still allow anyone to reply.
Remember Poster's Name and Email address
Tired of typing your name and email every time you want to post? With this option enabled, you won’t have to, the board will “remember” you! (and all of your board users)
Easy Link and Image Posting
Don’t want to bother with HTML? Don’t worry, you can enable “Link” and “Image” fields for postings to your board. The link field will make a link, all you have to do is provide the URL, and optionally a title. The image field allows you to include the URL of an image to automatically include in your posting.
Remove Name and Email Fields
Don’t like asking visitors for their name and email address? No problem, removing the email field is simple, but to remove the Name field, you have to have password protection installed on your board, and their login username will be used instead (more info on password protection below)
Response Link Options
When someone is viewing an individual message on your board you can show links to just the replies to that message, or show the visitor links to the entire thread, for easy navigation, with the current message in bold print.
Boardhost Paid Service Plans
Advertisement–free; Additional pages of messages
Our Boardhost Paid Service plans all feature no advertisements on your message board, and available increased message limits. Messages beyond the first 500 are placed on additional pages on your board. Your board can extend to up to 5 pages with our Boardhost 2500 plans.
Boardhost Multi–Board Service Plans
Create up to 10 message boards which share a single account! Our multi–board plans allow you to add or remove a message board from your account at any time. This is a very affordable way to have multiple message boards and offers a huge savings versus having multiple single message board plans.
Each board you add will share the settings and customization of your account. You can move threads between boards. If you have co–administrators, you can even choose which boards to allow each co–administrator to help you with.
Boardhost Message Archives
With our plans that include a 25,000 message archive, when your board exceeds 2,500 messages (i.e. 5 pages of messages) the oldest thread, instead of being deleted, will be moved to your message boards message archive. The message archive differs from the main board in that replies and edits to messages in the archive are no longer allowed.
Your users will be able to browse through the messages in your board's archive, and archived messages will be included in any message searches conducted by your users.
The archive functions similar to your board itself, in that if it is to exceed 25,000 messages, the last thread in the archive will be automatically removed. In addition, you may removed a thread from your board’s archive at any time through the message board administration area.
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