Link Robins - Flarum Hosting

KBExit

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: shared "sandbox" hosting where a busy neighbor slows down your site, and the "black box" mystery of background jobs and emails.

I built Link Robins to solve this. I provide precision-engineered hosting built specifically to make Flarum fly.

🛡️ The Link Robins Difference: Infrastructure First

Most hosts put you on a shared slice. We treat your community like the mission-critical asset it is.

Guaranteed Resources: Every instance is containerized and isolated with it's own dedicated allocation of resources.
Dedicated Database Cluster: Your data doesn’t fight for CPU on the web server. I use an optimized, remote MySQL cluster for lightning-fast query times.
Powered by Valkey: I’ve moved beyond Redis. Enjoy next-gen caching with Valkey for lower latency and higher session throughput.
Laravel Horizon Dashboard: No more "Black Box" hosting. See your background jobs and emails processing in real-time from your own dashboard.

🚀 Technical Edge & Features

Built-in Email Outbox: Stop wrestling with SMTP. Every plan includes an automated transactional email outbox that just works.
Cloudflare R2 Storage: Unlimited media growth. I offload all files to high-speed object storage so your site stays lean and fast.
Verified Extension Support: Want a specific extension? Request it via the integrated chat, and I will personally verify, install, and optimize it to ensure stability.

🤝 Personal 1:1 Support

Why leave your dashboard for help? Every Link Robins plan includes a Direct Chat Widget embedded in your Flarum admin area. You have a direct line to me (the founder) for extension requests and technical support.

Why "I" instead of "We"?
I believe in personal accountability. When you reach out, you aren't hitting a ticket queue—you're reaching me. I’m dedicated to making sure your community succeeds.

🌍 Ready to start?

Whether you are starting fresh or need a white-glove migration from your current host, I’m here to help.

👉 Visit Link Robins

Link Robins LLC | 🇺🇸 USA Based & Veteran Owned | 99.9% Uptime Guaranteed
Proud Supporter of the Flarum Foundation.

ernestdefoe

KBExit pretty awesome function.

navindra

Wow. Well, done! 👍

~~The pricing is basically at-cost, as far as I can tell. I would guess that it's near impossible for another business to beat those prices or sustain them in the long run. 👏~~ Edit: Crossed out my comment since the pricing is now updated to be sustainable.

Good luck!

KBExit

navindra thanks! The biggest factor from surveying individuals were that they had no experience running servers and don't wish for that headache and at the same time, they want some thing affordable. I figured my pricing for introductory is great and if they need more resources, I can discuss upgrades or refer them out / assist them in spinning up their own instance.
I want to do this out of good faith of the community and at the same time, protect myself from abuse. This is why I manually spin the instances up after payment and allow 14 days free trial. If something isn't right, customers are free to leave 🙂 Additionally, I'm not afraid to say no if something would hinder my resources or my reputation as well.
Support is also a big factor here. I'll answer everything that's thrown at me, and if there's an issue, I can easily take the logs and reach out to the community here, who have proven helpful for the best interest of running the core software.

ernestdefoe

KBExit Update #2: I am offering Flarum hosting including REDIS right out of the bat at $60 / mo and unlimited storage (Fair Use). 14 days free trial.

$60 a month or $60 a year? Just asking because of what your website says.

KBExit

ernestdefoe Sorry about that! 60 / year!
Thank you for catching that!

Edit, you'll get the new rate vs what I originally quoted you 🙂

ernestdefoe

KBExit well I noticed in the original post you had $60 a year but in the post I quoted you said month I just wanted to make sure.

KBExit

ernestdefoe I appreciate it! Not enough Coca Cola in my system lol

ernestdefoe

KBExit I knew I liked you. Coke all the way.

ernestdefoe

I have been trying out the service offered by @KBExit since he pretty much started out and to me it's a bridge between what FreeFlarum offers (if you outgrow their service) and the Commercial Flarum hosting provided by Flarum. The fact that this service has Redis out of the box and support for Realtime if you have purchased a license for it makes this service amazing. I highly recommend the service offered by Karl. The fact you can also use the Flarum Extension Manager so you can install extensions yourself is a plus in my book. Karl goes above and beyond to make sure things are running smoothly and the one on one support is amazing.

KBExit

ernestdefoe wanted to say thank you again since the posts split off. I am grateful that you gave me a chance when I first launched and stuck by with me through it all. I am so glad to have you as a client 🙂

KBExit

Valkey + Horizon Support

So thankful for @IanM and his discussion with me to fix an issue for a client AND give me pointers on scaling!
With his input, Link Robins is now supporting REDIS + Horizon and running on the latest Valkey Version as a replacement for REDIS.

I am fully committed to supporting Flarum 2.0 as well. Thank you to all that have stuck by with me, supported me, and helped me shape Link Robins to what it is now!

navindra

KBExit Just curious, but how do you decide when a site needs to move to the next hosting tier beyond $60?

Is it only limited by what the assigned VM can handle or there's some traffic limit?

ernestdefoe

navindra one of the biggest advantages to hosting with LinkRobbins is the one on one approach that @KBExit has. He usually responds pretty quickly and he’s very knowledgeable and goes the extra mile to figure things out if you’re having an issue and he doesn’t stop until he gets it figured out.

KBExit

navindra now that you mentioned it. I am just going on full transparency here: https://beszel.dev/
This is the system I am in the middle of migrating to.

KBExit

ernestdefoe thank you! I appreciate that message!

ernestdefoe

That's not a bad deal. Now is it only available to pay only yearly or can you do monthly for it?

KBExit

ernestdefoe thanks! Right now I can only offer yearly. I will look into bringing in monthly. But it's hard to do it for the cheaper plans since transaction fees will eat the bulk of it being that low. That's why I opted for yearly only 🙁

ernestdefoe

KBExit I was meaning on the Enterprise plan not the cheaper one. The reason I say that is because it might be easier for someone to come up with $50-60 a month than $600 up front.