Every Nexforum feature is included in one plan. No upsells, no tiers, no features held back. Here's exactly what you get — and why each one matters for your community.
Most shared hosting still runs on SATA SSDs or spinning hard disks. Forum software is database-intensive — every page load, search query and profile view hits MySQL dozens of times. NVMe solid-state storage responds three to five times faster than SATA SSD. The result is a forum that feels noticeably snappier for every member, on every page, every time they visit.
Many hosts advertise "unlimited" bandwidth then throttle connections or impose fair-use clauses when communities get busy. Nexforum doesn't. Unlimited means unlimited — no hidden limits, no throttling during peak hours, no bill for traffic you didn't expect. Your forum loads fast for every member whether there are five people online or five thousand.
HTTPS is non-negotiable for a community forum. Members share personal details when registering, post privately and send messages — all of that needs encrypting in transit. A Let's Encrypt SSL certificate is provisioned automatically for your domain and renewed without any action from you. Your forum is served over HTTPS from day one with no configuration, no annual fees and no expiry reminders cluttering your inbox.
Community forums accumulate irreplaceable content — years of discussions, shared knowledge, member relationships. A plugin update gone wrong or an accidental database change should never be able to wipe that history. Nexforum backs up your entire hosting environment — files, database and configuration — every single day. If anything ever goes wrong, your forum can be restored quickly, completely and without data loss.
Active online communities sometimes attract unwanted attention — coordinated traffic attacks designed to take a site offline. Nexforum's infrastructure includes network-level DDoS mitigation that filters malicious traffic before it reaches your forum server. Your members stay connected, your forum stays fast and you never need to configure or manage the protection — it's always active at the infrastructure level.
A forum at youractualdomain.com is a real community. A forum on a generic hosting subdomain is a temporary experiment. All Nexforum plans support custom domain names — point your domain's DNS to our servers and we configure everything including SSL from there. Your community builds on foundations that belong to you: your domain, your brand and a search presence that grows with every thread posted.
Every Nexforum plan includes one professional email account on your custom domain. Set up hello@yourforum.com, admin@yourcommunity.net or any address that fits your brand. Accessible via webmail from any browser or configured with your email client using standard IMAP/SMTP settings. A professional address builds trust with new members and gives your forum a credible, established identity from day one.
Softaculous is the world's leading auto-installer, included with every Nexforum account. It installs any of eight forum platforms completely automatically — database creation, file upload, configuration and initial setup all happen without you touching a single file or running a single command. From clicking Install to having a fully-functional forum admin panel ready for your first members takes under 60 seconds.
Powered by Softaculous
All eight platforms are free, open-source and install automatically via Softaculous. Your plan covers all of them — try any combination during your 30-day free trial at no cost.
What real ownership means
Every feature on Nexforum is designed around one principle: your community belongs to you — not to a platform, not to an advertiser, not to an algorithm. Here's what that means in practice.
Facebook Group admins do all the work building a community. Facebook takes all the control and all the ad revenue. Moving to Nexforum gives you back what you should have had from the start.
Read the Migration Guide →Infrastructure
Your forum runs on real, purpose-built infrastructure. Here's what's under the hood — no vague promises, no marketing fluff.
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NVMe SSD · Unlimited bandwidth · Free SSL · Daily backups · 8 forum platforms · Zero ads. All yours for £0.99/mo after trial.