tony9 If you want a better experience, and a chance to try Flarum out first before you make the jump to a VPS (which in all honesty, isn't for those without necessary experience as you need to install prerequisite software such as Apache or NGINX plus other required libraries etc), then have a look here
https://www.freeflarum.com/
This should enable you to experience Flarum along with most extensions. It's also completely free, and I believe that the founder of this particular service allows to to export your database should you then decide to go it alone on your dedicated VPS.
