Create Your Own Social Networking Site for Free

We spend most of our time on social networks such as Facebook, twitter, Snapchat, WhatsApp etc. Have you ever thought about creating own social networking site to connect with your family and friends without spending single penny? Facebook was started from simple social network to connect Harvard college's students. Who knows next genre social network will maybe yours?  It does not requires coding skill, you just have to follow the following tutorials.
There are many free and paid CMS to make social networks among them here is list of top free social network script.
1. Elgg   : It is best open source CMS to build your social network, It is written in php, mysql. It is updating day by day with more functions. It is very easy to use and powerful too. You can make Community site for College, Company, or Family within few minutes.
2. CommunityEngine: A free, open-source social network plugin for Ruby on Rails applications. you can use it to new or existing sites, and you’ll instantly have all the features of a basic community site.
3. Dolphin: Dolphin is a CMS coded in PHP/ MySql that lets you create costume social networks, dating sites and web communities. It comes loaded with lots of functions like video chat, recorder, video player, forums, groups, events, video messaging, emails, file sharing as well as desktop and mobile apps . It is better than some premiere version of CMS for social network sites.
4. Oxwall :Oxwall is unbelievably flexible and easy to use PHP/MySQL community software platform. Oxwall is used for a wide range of projects starting from family sites and custom social networks to collaboration tools and enterprise community solutions. You can check demo at http://demo.oxwall.com.
5. Jcow:   Jcow is a flexible and free social networking CMS coded in PHP/MySql. You can use Jcow to create Social Networks and online communities but it is little difficult to use if you do not have any programming logic. You can check demo at  https://www​.jcow.net/demo

Now you can download any of these free social networking sites script. I prefer you to downloaded the first one Elgg from https://elgg.org/download.php
It will be better if you have paid domain and hosting. If you don't have paid hosting and domain then you should go with free web hosting which has limited bandwidth. Go to any of these free web hosting site .
1. http://000webhost.com
2. http://www.freehostia.com/
3. https://www.5gbfree.com/hosting-plans/
4. https://yola.com
5. http://X10hosting.com

Now I prefer you to choose 000webhost to create your social network because it give 100GB  of bandwidth,  Disk Space-1.5GB without any advertisements.  and go Upload all of the archive files in the directory where you wish to install Elgg. You can upload the files via FTP.
After that if you uploaded on main folder then go http://yoursite.com/install and if you uploaded on subfolder go to http://yoursite.com/elgg/install and fill the required field. keep following the instruction given on site. You can read installing manual of elgg from http://learn.elgg.org/en/2.0/intro/install

Bonus: If you want to build own microblogging site like twitter then go to github and download  Twitter Like Cms by Simar and install it on server, It is written in simple php/mysql you can easily modify them according to your wish. It have almost all feature of twitter such as follow, unfollow, tweet, news feed etc. You just have to install it. Your microblogging site is ready. You can read file readme to know more information about it.

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September 08, 2016 Tags : How To , make , mysql , php , Social Network

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