Community & forum
Flarum
Simple, fast, elegant forum.
open source self-hostable Flarum Foundation · ?Lightweight PHP forum with an extension ecosystem.
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How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | Flarum Foundation (jurisdiction unknown) |
|---|---|
| Licence | MIT |
| Self-hosting footprint | 256 MB RAM · 0.25 vCPU · 2 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | Discord |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 16,388 stars · updated 2026-08-27 · PHP |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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