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Looking for a very cheap hosting for Flarum

Hi, I'm looking for a very cheap hosting for Flarum forum.

To install Flarum I need SSH access, to install also Composer:

Server Requirements
Apache (with mod_rewrite enabled) or Nginx
PHP 7.1+ with the following extensions: curl, dom, gd, json, mbstring, openssl, pdo_mysql, tokenizer, zip
MySQL 5.6+ or MariaDB 10.0.5+
SSH (command-line) access to run Composer

Shared Hosting
At this stage, it's not possible to install Flarum by downloading a ZIP file and uploading the files to your web server. This is because Flarum uses a dependency-management system called Composer which needs to run on the command line.

This doesn't necessarily mean you need a VPS. Some shared hosts give you SSH access, through which you should be able to install Composer and Flarum just fine. For other hosts without SSH, you can try workarounds such as Pockethold.

(I have tried Pockethold but it isn't very good)

I would like move my Mybb forum (not too heavy) to Flarum forum but I need SSH access.

However, hosting must be safe and reliable.

Before I used a VPS with hostsailor + serverpilot to manage VPS without worrying about security, updates etc. but for my problems I had to cancel everything and now serverpilot charges a minimum of 5$ for the service and hostsailor has increased the price.

Comments

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran
    edited March 2020

    Get a cheap VPS and you can do it all by yourself, without any limitations.
    I suggest a wild KVM with at least 1gig of memoryz + some SSD or NVMe.

  • seriesnseriesn Member
    edited March 2020

    You got a realistic budget boss?

  • WebProjectWebProject Host Rep, Veteran

    You can try us:
    https://www.webprovps.com/wordpress-hosting

    PHP composer is enabled, we do use Apache + Nginx.

  • angstromangstrom Moderator

    @nory said: Hi, I'm looking for a very cheap hosting for Flarum forum.

    Congrats on your first post

  • norynory Member

    @Neoon said:
    Get a cheap VPS and you can do it all by yourself, without any limitations.
    I suggest a wild KVM with at least 1gig of memoryz + some SSD or NVMe.

    you have no limitations but then you always have to be careful of hackers, updates etc.

  • If DirectAdmin is okay with you, our shared hosting plans can have SSH enabled upon request.

    Checks all your boxes, including Composer.

  • hzrhzr Member

    I've used flarum, your budget is reasonable, this will run on virtually any shared hosting. About as much load as an empty wordpress.

    just need host or someone to sudo to you and run composer once.

  • HostSailor still has some cheap offers available. The "Special Mini Sailor OVZ" is $6.6/year.
    http://lowendstock.com/deals/

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