When it comes to creating a forum for your website, there's a pretty wide range of different types of forum softwares, each having there own ups and downs. You have a range of free softwares which can be very good, you also have a range of paid softwares which normally offer more core features, although you can normally install a couple of plugins on a free software to have these features.
When it comes to forum software, my choice is MyBB if I am going to be using free software, if I was going to be paying for the software, I would choose either IPB or XenForo.
When it comes to forum software, my choice is MyBB if I am going to be using free software, if I was going to be paying for the software, I would choose either IPB or XenForo.