[SUSPENDED] Help us build the official Flarum hosting service

Prosperous

Very good thing to offer your customers moving forward. Good move Flarum. ?

I'd definitely be taking on the hosting if I didn't have it already myself.

justshipit

@Toby Having my existing forum, how hard it will be to migrate to your platform?

Toby

justshipit If you have an existing Flarum database, we'd be more than happy to import it into your hosted forum. Just shoot us an email (support@flarum.com) with an SQL dump and your account details. Migrating from other forum software is on the roadmap but it's still a while away.

CapitanSupositorio Sorry, currently only the English language pack is available. We'll work in the coming weeks to review and make available some of the more popular/stable extensions and language packs.

CapitanSupositorio

How to change Language?

CapitanSupositorio

Toby I have a vbulletin old database, could be imported? how many long my forum get hosted?

Thanks !

jordanjay29

CapitanSupositorio At this time, there is no converter for vBulletin. You can take a look at this discussion of the same problem for a potential solution.

AdamMulholland

Got the forum up and running and I love what Flarum is becoming. Clearly it's beta and I expect things to not work 100%. You guys are doing awesome work here and thank you Brandon for what you are doing. One thing that is missing from the announcement (I think) is if there be a way to export down the line? Like most, I have my own servers as well and I want to make sure I can test the beta 5 and be flexible enough to export it if needed so I can have my own access to cPanel, SSH, and custom addons? That was a huge run on sentence...my apologies.

I just want to make sure that I can do more than just test down the line.

Franz

AdamMulholland

Actually, Toby did mention that:

Toby You’ll be able to export all of your data at any time.

AdamMulholland

Franz thanks for the response! Makes me feel much better now ?

N3k0

Oh... wow ? great project... When its out, I hope see nice plans and i will like to support them ?

Cheers!

isti37

How about just providing a docker image and give everyone a dockerized version of flarum and access to a database automatically ?

Then there won't be issues with security or extensions.
Also there will be harder ways to make lots of money from flarum :

Offer a professional conversion/hosting service to people who have xenforo/IPB/vbulletin because they have the money and they will pay.
There is the option to offer a 'professional' version of flarum which would be able to have multiple failsafe frontend proxies, many people use cloudflare on big forums but flarum could solve ddos by isolating the backend from the frontend entirely through proxies and have frontend servers in multiple places.
There are themes, currently we don't really have themes but once someone puts forward a complex UI kit/tutorial on envato/youtube for the frontend flarum will have dozens of good themes.

webeindustry

isti37

Docker is an option, but I don't know it's necessary or wanted. The resource overhead will likely outweigh the added benefits.

As per front-end/back-end isolation. This is planned for production. We're taking a multi-pronged approach to dealing with DDOS, though I trust you understand even services provided by cloud-flare have their limitations (and potential security-risks).

Blueh

Wow! We've filled our quota for the week. Please try back in a few days. Thank you! ?

basp

Wow, awesome

luceos

@visorq please use the sandbox ("post tests here") to ... post tests in.

Yggdrasil

Will there be more spots availabe next week, or is that it for now?

webeindustry

Yggdrasil

Registrations open back up in 8hrs.

justshipit

@Toby How your hosting will be different from, let's say, Digital Ocean with their base offering US$5 a month?

webeindustry

justshipit

DigitalOcean is an IAAS provider. That's infrastructure as a service. They provide you with an unmanged virtual machine. We're a SAAS provider, offering the flarum software as a service. It's managed, which means you don't have to worry about messing with the server at all.

We'll also be offering a lot of perks like https from the get-go, frequent local & remote backups, restore, and a web-management panel where you can handle common tasks from within your browser.

Webinsane

webeindustry We'll also be offering a lot of perks like https from the get-go, frequent local & remote backups, restore, and a web-management panel where you can handle common tasks from within your browser.

Any specific management panel?

Digital

Hey @webeindustry, will Flarum offer their own SMTP service? Is it planned in the future?

Davis

Digital its planned. They're currently working on a solution for this.

webeindustry

Digital

Yea, like Davis said, we're planning on offering our own SMTP service in the near-future.

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