Best Host that can support installing Flarum but is affordable?

MohdKhan

i suggest you to use Hetzner Cloud, no comparison at all. Best Option.

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MohdKhan i suggest you to use Hetzner Cloud, no comparison at all. Best Option.

100% agree. I am also a Hetzner user.

aaronhall

I may start with FreeFlarum, and if my forum grows, I'll download everything to a self-hosted. Installing this is over my head. I keep hitting road blocks.

almalino

I use AWS lightsail 2 servers for Flarum:

Ubuntu 20 with 2GB of RAM / 60GB SSD
MySQL DB server 40GB SSD

And I pay like 25 USD/month

almalino

MikeJones My aws and s3 bucket are about $23 per month

Do you use S3 for images? Could you share how much you pay for S3 for how many images? I was considering it but I am not sure about the costs.

MikeJones

almalino yes I uss it for images. Its not really the number of images its more about size and number of transfers

almalino

MikeJones yes I uss it for images. Its not really the number of images its more about size and number of transfers

How much out of 23 USD do you pay fro S3? I am curious 🙂

MikeJones

almalino $7.43 last month for S3 services.

almalino

MikeJones that is a considerable amount of total hosting actually.

matteocontrini

MikeJones $7.43 last month for S3 services.

Including data transfer, right? 🙂

MohdKhan

Use Hetzner for Hosting Main Script.
BackBlaze B2 as S3 Alternative.

almalino

MohdKhan BackBlaze B2

Is there a flarum plugin to upload images to BackBlaze B2

MohdKhan

almalino I recommend Imgur for images...

but yes you can upload images to BackBlaze B2 Bucket.

MohdKhan

almalino upload images to BackBlaze B2

using fof/upload extension.

MohdKhan

just need minor code change to make it work, if you want to do so, I'll help you.

ihhddis

MohdKhan I sent you a message on Discord 🙂

MikeJones

matteocontrini correct. Used to be a lot worse.... I was uploading 20 mb pictures without compression... Learned the hard way to go back and compress my pictures 🤣