help and advice needed to start a forum

hey guys can some of u give me some advice about starting up a forum
its straying away from veedubs cause my other passion is 80s hothatchesbasically wot i need to know is how do u go about hosting a forum and the intial setting up costs

Il send you some info tomorrw if II don't remind me

At the bottom of this page is links for the free forum setup stuff. Its a piece of piss. Just register a URL if you want your own, but if not the free forum site gives you a pretty decent one anyway.
The admin user has setting to set up the look and feel...