Hello Flarum Community!
I'm Karl Bullock, founder of Link Robins. As a disabled Marine Corps Veteran and a long-time fan of the Flarum ecosystem, I've seen the struggle many forum owners face: generic hosting that barely cuts it, the "black box" mystery of background jobs and emails, and the need for reliable uptime monitoring built specifically for Flarum — not just a generic ping.
I built Link Robins to solve all of that. We provide precision-engineered managed hosting built specifically to make Flarum fly, alongside free and powerful monitoring tools for any Flarum forum.
Your Flarum Forum Deserves Better.
Real-time monitoring, community rankings, and deep Flarum insights — free, forever. Elite managed hosting from $15/mo when you're ready to grow.
🚀 Free Monitoring, Analytics & Community Rankings
Everything you need to keep your forum watched and your community visible — at no cost, with no strings attached.
- Uptime Monitoring: Response times, uptime percentages, SSL validity, and domain expiry — all in one view, checked every minute. HTTP, TCP, and heartbeat (cron-style) monitors included.
- Incident Alerts: Outage reports with email, webhook, and notification integrations (Discord, Slack, Teams, Telegram, and more).
- Deep Flarum Monitoring: This is where we stand apart. We query your Flarum
/api endpoint directly to surface real insights — not just whether your site is online, but what's actually happening inside your forum:
- Discussion & tag activity tracking
- Last activity monitoring
- Debug mode alerts
- Inactivity warnings (7+ days)
- Registration status detection
- Status Pages — now with your own domain: A transparent window into your operational status. Host it at status.yourdomain.com with one CNAME record — SSL is automatic. Organize monitors into categories, post incident timelines with severity levels, schedule maintenance windows (planned work never counts against your uptime), and let your members subscribe by email or RSS to get notified the moment something happens — and when it's resolved.
- Monthly SLA Reports: An uptime report for all your monitors, delivered to your inbox every month.
- Flarum Ranks by Link Robins: Opt your forum into our public Flarum Community Rankings — a live leaderboard ranked by discussion activity. Show off your community's standing with embeddable uptime and rank badges.
All of the above is free, forever. No credit card, no expiry, no catch.
🛡️ Managed Flarum Hosting
We handle the server, updates, backups, and extensions — you focus on growing your community.
- Your Domain, One DNS Record: Bring any domain from any DNS provider — connecting it is a single CNAME record, and your SSL certificate is issued and renewed automatically. No server IPs to manage, ever. Or skip DNS entirely with a free yourname.linkrobins.cc address included on every plan.
- A Real SLA That Pays Out Automatically: If your forum's monthly uptime ever falls below 95% due to our infrastructure, we credit 10% of that month's fee to your account on our own initiative — no ticket, no asking, no proving anything. It just appears on your next invoice. Our own infrastructure uptime is public at linkrobins.com/status/uptime — monitored by the same product you'd be using.
- Full Dashboard Transparency: See your live CPU and RAM usage in real time directly from your hosting dashboard. We believe in transparency, not upselling — it's always up to you whether you want to upgrade.
- Self-Service Everything: Change your domain, stop/start your site, trigger backups, and run repair tools (Clear Cache, Publish Assets, Run Migrations, full Repair) — all from your dashboard, no support ticket needed.
- Flarum Extension Manager on Every Plan: Install and manage extensions directly from your admin panel — included on all tiers.
- Laravel Horizon Dashboard: Absolute visibility into your background jobs and email delivery. No more "black box" hosting.
- Built-in Transactional Email: Every plan includes a ready-to-go email outbox for forum notifications — no external email service setup required.
- Cloudflare R2 Storage: Unlimited file uploads powered by Cloudflare R2 object storage. Avatars, attachments, and images load instantly regardless of volume.
- Realtime Included: WebSockets on every plan — live discussions, notifications, and reactions out of the box, with Valkey-backed sessions, queues, and cache keeping every page load snappy.
- Typo-Tolerant Search (Pro & Enterprise): Fast, typo-tolerant search built right into your forum — members find the right discussion even when they misspell the query, and results come back instantly. It indexes your forum automatically, stays current in real time as people post, and runs entirely on our own infrastructure — nothing to install, nothing to configure.
- Visitor Analytics (Pro & Enterprise): A privacy-preserving, cookieless visitor-analytics dashboard for your forum — visits, top discussions, traffic sources, and country breakdowns, updated every few minutes. No Google Analytics to wire up, no third-party scripts slowing your pages down, and no raw visitor IPs ever stored.
- Managed Updates: Flarum core and extension updates handled by us. Your forum stays current without you lifting a finger.
- Daily Backups + On-Demand: Your entire forum is backed up automatically every day. You can also trigger an on-demand database backup anytime from your dashboard.
- Migrating an existing forum? We import your database for you — upload a SQL export during signup and we handle the rest.
- Monitoring Included: Every hosting client gets Flarum-aware monitoring included — we watch your forum so you don't have to.
Our Tech Stack: AMD EPYC · Cloudflare · NGINX · Traefik · Valkey · MariaDB · Tinybird · Typesense
💰 Simple, Transparent Pricing
Monitoring is always free — no card, no expiry. Every hosting tier includes the full managed stack; visitor analytics and typo-tolerant search are included on Pro and Enterprise.
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | Savings |
|---|
| Base | $15.00/mo | $150.00/yr | 17% off |
| Pro | $30.00/mo | $300.00/yr | 17% off |
| Enterprise | $300.00/mo | $3,000.00/yr | 17% off |
Base — $15/mo or $150/yr
Everything a growing community needs: full feature set, Extension Manager, daily backups, monitoring, and the SLA. Perfect for starting or modest-traffic forums.
Pro — $30/mo or $300/yr
Everything in Base — plus a visitor-analytics dashboard and typo-tolerant search — with enhanced resources for active, established communities running heavier traffic and bigger extension stacks.
Enterprise — $300/mo or $3,000/yr
Everything in Pro, on a dedicated server — no shared resources. Built for massive communities with heavy extension stacks and high concurrent user counts. Full control, maximum performance.
Hosting more than one forum? Every forum after your first is 15% off, forever — applied automatically at checkout.
🔧 Support
Support is available via the chat widget built into your dashboard. As a veteran-owned operation, every issue is taken seriously. Our support window is 24–48 hours — and your dashboard's built-in repair tools mean you can often resolve common issues yourself without waiting at all.
💬 What People Are Saying
"If you're running a Flarum forum and you're tired of generic hosting that barely cuts it, or you just need reliable uptime monitoring that actually works, seriously, give Link Robins a shot. They understand Flarum, and it makes all the difference."
— Jonathan P.
"Karl goes above and beyond for his customers and I highly recommend his service. He is prompt to answer questions and is highly knowledgeable about hosting Flarum."
— ernestdefoe
"This is a set it and forget it host. Once Karl has you up and running, you basically never have to worry about your site. If anything happens, he's on it."
— Michael Bordelon
"Every time I've had a question, the support has been genuine and fast — not copy-paste responses. It's rare to find a service where you feel like the person behind it actually wants your community to succeed."
— Polyester
🌍 Ready to take control of your community?
Free monitoring for any Flarum forum. Managed hosting from $15/mo for communities that demand more.
👉 Visit Link Robins
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❓ Read the FAQ
Link Robins LLC | 🇺🇸 USA Based & Veteran Owned | 95% Uptime SLA with Automatic Credits
Proud Supporter of the Flarum Foundation. Flarum® is a trademark of Flarum Foundation; Link Robins is not affiliated with Flarum.org.
