A website I'm looking to design will have a forum. My question is this, if I acquire a free forum (ezboard) will that the forum behosted on a separate site from my main website host or will it be on my main website server?

I'm just concerned that high traffic on my forum will affect the fees I pay for my website host.

Thanks again for all your help

It's up to you. If you download a program and install it on the server you use, the traffic will indeed be part of your account usage. If you use a remotely hosted forum, such as one that many companies provide, it will be separate from your account.

Ive heard lots of good things about the snitz forums :D
http://www.forumco.com/index.html

Boards like ezboard are hosted remotely. That means, it won't affect your bandwidth directly.

But if it is a high traffic forum, why don't you get advertisers for it? Then you can have income to cover up your outgoing...

Donovan's suggestion is good, go to Commission Junction (http://www.cj.com) and find a few ads that are approprite for your forum. Text links work best.

If you're looking for a remotely hosted board, another option is http://www.coolboard.com.

Or http://www.spine.de , if you don't mind about perlish board.. It has some benefits... because it's not a forum in it's usual taste.