As our customers know, July & August were huge months for us development wise. In just two months, we made more improvements and installed more features than most hosts install in a years time. Our constant upgrades are a big reason why we’re so far ahead of our competition. Just two months ago we promised five huge improvements were coming this summer. These weren’t small mods that would take a day to install, this were core changes. I’m happy to say that we’re ahead of schedule and already completed four, plus many other exciting features. Here’s an inside look at the coming upgrades:

Free Upgrades — Everyone wants a domain name, and a premium forum, but not everyone is able to pay for it. Coming this month we will allow admins and their users to fill out offers by our sponsors and receive free upgrades.

Forum Directory – This will be a great way to not only find other interesting forums, but also to get users for your forum. Within a few weeks we plan to release a directory with some of the forums freeforums.org hosts. While this directory is limited to really active forums, and premium forums, anyone can purchase premium and get a listing.

Core Network Upgrades – Coming around the 23rd of this month we will be upgrading all three web servers to the latest, more powerful hardware. We will also start upgrading every mysql database server. The result will be even faster page loading and more reliability.

Backup Optimizing – No one would disagree that backups are important. At FreeForums.org, we have one of the most advanced backup systems available. Next week will be removing deadweight files and forums to help optimize the process. This, coupled with the network upgrades mentioned above will highly reduce the slowness some forums see early in the more during the backups.

Knowledge Base Refresh – Our knowledge base is one of the premier help resources for phpBB forums. It’s used by thousands of forum admins per day (a lot use other hosts) and contains a lot of valuable information on starting, managing, and improving your forum. We plan to do a huge refresh this month adding even more content.

As you can see the FreeForums.org team is dedicated towards keeping our service #1, and have quite a bit of work ahead.