Which host has the biggest forum?

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BlackStorm

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Which web host has the largest company forums?
My company forums is very small, somewhere around 2000 posts.
I have seen company forums with hundreds of thousands of posts but they are normally companies like Ev1 and others that own their own Datacentres

What about hosts that offer shared and reseller hosting mainly?
 
How about total choice, theirs is pretty large as well. I used them about a month once, did enjoy the forum then so I am sure it is even larger now. Freckled
 
EV1 I believe has the biggest, that forum is very helpful to us newbies at admining servers. It really brings the "managed" to the "unmanaged" server company.
 
Thanks Rox off for posting the link for everyone, couldn't get much time on the forums until today.
I just thought when I used total choice they were very limiting in what they allowed their customers to do or access. They may have changed, I just wasn't thrilled there. EV1 is a great forum for a quick fix, I did find some solutions there. Of course WHT is huge, I enjoy readig what people hate or like in a web host, as well as the tips for catching spammers and frauders. Server Matrix Forums are good and since my servers are there I scan through that one daily. Freckled
 
Yeah I think the SM forum is a lot newer and its growing very quickly.
The EV1 forums are the largest host forums, they have a lot of people posting there that arent customers also.

Its a great place for help for server owners, sometimes even more useful than support at your own DC if your not with them ;)
 
I concur. When I need to look something up for cPanel, I'll often head to the EV1 forums before I stop by the actual cPanel forums. EV1's forums are truly helpful to anyone and that's exactly what drives that forum. I'm sure it has generated its share of sales in the past and not only is it helpful, but makes for a good marketing tool as well.
 
If a host has a large helpful forum I think its a great marketing tool.
Not only do people tell others about it, the posts also show up on search engines and gives the hosts a huge amount of visitors
 
Exactly, a well built community will attract almost anyone. I think it also will eventually benefit the host in the fact that there are others there who will answer questions that the host might otherwise answer for the user. HTTPme is a perfect example of a company built around this through process and I must say it is a sucess.
 
It is also very hard to maintain an active forum though, the forum on my site was bigger but I deleted a number of forums and I think its giving a bad impression at a lot of times because some people post very stupid things but I dont delete because they wouldnt be happy with me telling my customers their posts are all stupid ;)

They are just posts that are very immature and dont reflect well on a business, Im sure anyone that runs a hosting biz will understand what I mean, its just not the image you want to convey.

HTTPme is a great success and Bob did VERY well with that.

Wonder what the business model of his next hosting company will be though ;)
 
I'm curious myself on that note. I'm sure Bob will come up with something and I'm sure we've not seen the last of him in the industry or in charge of a company. ;)

I agree that they do take extra work, and you do have to watch over them to prevent abuse, but I believe at least in the long run, you'll reap the benefits on down the road.
 
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