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Fully Managed Discourse
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Deploy Discourse as a fully managed service starting at €9/mo. Get automated backups, SSL, updates, support and monitoring included.

Discourse is an open-source community platform — discussion forums, real-time chat, AI-powered search, and member management — combining the convenience of Slack or Reddit with the security and control of self-hosted infrastructure. Released under GPL v2.0 and built by the team behind Stack Overflow, it powers over 22,000 communities including OpenAI, GitLab, Docker, and Unreal Engine.

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Discourse

Discourse

STARTING AT

€9/month
Automated Backups
Monitoring
Automated Updates
Auto SSL

USAGE

Unlimited
Human Support
Custom Domains
Terminal Access
File Manager Access
Deploy in your region — 21 locations worldwide
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ABOUT THE SOFTWARE

What is Discourse

Discourse is an open-source community platform — discussion forums, real-time chat, AI-powered search, and member management — combining the convenience of Slack or Reddit with the security and control of self-hosted infrastructure. GPL v2.0. Built since 2013 by the team behind Stack Overflow.

Discourse is maintained by Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. (CDCK) — co-founded by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron in 2013. The project is licensed under GPL v2.0 with a contributor license agreement pledging, in writing, that Discourse will remain publicly free under the same terms as long as the founders are involved. The codebase is Ruby on Rails on the server side, Ember.js on the client, Postgres for storage, Redis for caching and queues, and Sidekiq for background jobs.

Discourse powers over 22,000 communities — among them Let's Encrypt, OpenAI, GitLab, Docker, SailPoint, Unreal Engine, and Roblox Developer Forum. The data container handles instances ranging from five-person staff teams to deployments with millions of monthly page views on a single tuned host.

FEATURES

What Discourse does

Discourse covers the entire community surface: long-form discussion, real-time chat, AI-powered search and bots, member management with trust levels, content translation, and integrations with most of the tools your community already uses.

Categories, tags, and trust levels

Hierarchical categories with per-group permissions. Tags for cross-cutting topics. Five automatic trust levels promote engaged members to self-moderation without admin intervention.

Real-time chat

Channel-based and direct-message chat alongside long-form topics. Mirror chat messages into topic replies. Replaces the parallel Slack or Discord most communities run.

Plugin ecosystem

Solved, Reactions, Topic Voting, Subscriptions (Stripe), Patreon, Zendesk, GitHub, Code Review, Calendar, Events, Data Explorer, Policy, Gamification, Assign — and any community plugin you want installed.

Migration importers

Import scripts for phpBB, vBulletin, Vanilla, Invision (IPB), NodeBB, Drupal, Telligent, Disqus, and Slack workspaces. Posts, users, categories, and attachments preserved.

Discourse AI

AI Bot, AI Search (semantic + RAG), Summarization, Sentiment, Toxicity, Spam Detection, and content translation across up to 10 languages. Bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic keys, or self-host a local LLM.

Single Sign-On

DiscourseConnect (Discourse's own SSO), plus OAuth, OIDC, and SAML to Auth0, Okta, Google Workspace, GitHub, GitLab, Microsoft, Patreon, and any standards-compliant provider.

Email-driven participation

Reply by email — every notification is a reply-capable thread. Daily and weekly digest emails. SMTP-IN with POP3 polling for inbound. Mailgun, Postmark, SES and others supported as relays.

Per-user data export

Admin actions to export, anonymize, or delete a single user's footprint without scripting. Full site backups downloadable from the dashboard. Useful for the data requests every community admin eventually receives.

Software Source
Documentation
Video Tutorials

WHAT'S ALWAYS INCLUDED

Every app. Fully managed.
Nothing extra to pay for.

Every app you deploy includes the full managed service — security, backups, updates, and support from day one.

Automatic updates and patches

Apps run the latest stable version. Security patches applied silently, with rollback if needed.

Daily off-site backups

Multiple daily backups in redundant off-site locations. One-click restore if anything goes wrong.

24/7 uptime monitoring

Continuous monitoring with instant alerting. We respond before you notice.

SSL, firewall, DDoS protection

Auto-renewing SSL, hardened firewall rules, DDoS mitigation on every deployment.

Performance and scaling

We monitor resource usage continuously. When your app needs more headroom, we flag it and upgrade with your explicit approval.

Dedicated engineering support

Real engineers on chat. DNS, SMTP & migration help. All included in €9.

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WHY MANAGED

Why teams pick managed Discourse

On August 26, 2024, Slack started permanently deleting messages older than one year from free workspaces. Open-source projects, SaaS communities, and creator audiences began moving to Discourse — somewhere they actually own. Self-hosting Discourse is realistic; running it reliably under traffic is a different job.

The August 2024 deletion policy was the trigger; the June 2025 Kubernetes / CNCF community downgrade notice was the amplifier. Communities that had assumed Slack history was forever discovered it was rented. Discourse, by contrast, gives you the same software OpenAI and GitLab use on their public communities, with categories, trust levels, AI-powered search across every thread, and a topic memory measured in years rather than 90 days. The question is whether you want to run the software yourself.

Self-hosting Discourse means picking a Linux box, installing Docker, cloning discourse_docker, and running ./launcher rebuild app. That part is well-documented. What is less documented is what happens when a routine monthly release ships an nginx/conf.d/outlets/server/20-https.conf path that doesn't exist in your pulled image — as happened on May 7, 2025, breaking rebuilds across the meta forum until CDCK patched pups-1.2.1. Or when a plugin you added fails db:migrate during the next rebuild. Or when Sidekiq stalls silently and digest emails stop going out for three days before anyone notices. We've handled all of those. We run the same monthly release cadence Discourse runs, on a staging instance that catches the breaks before your production does.

What ships by default on a DANIAN Discourse instance: off-site backups to S3-compatible storage in a separate region; pre-configured outbound SMTP relay with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC aligned (the #1 new-admin failure mode, solved); UNICORN_WORKERS and db_shared_buffers sized for your traffic, not the installer's autotune; image processing isolated from the main Rails process; daily automated patching with smoke tests.


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No more maintenance headaches!

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Review from Kevin Blackwell

Kevin Blackwell

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Best managed service

I previously ran Peertube, Mastodon, Mattermost and Mirotalk on other providers before switching to DANIAN. I was tired of handling the updates and backups myself. Not only that the performance is "out of this world" fast, but their tech support is amazing. Since then I added 5-10 more Apps on my account. I also love how they add more softwares on their list constantly!

Review from William Northfield

William Northfield

Review Origin United Kingdom
5 stars review

Love the personalized service!

I own an ecommerce startup. I knew that I need some softwares so that I add automations in my biz. I hopped on their livechat and I explained my needs. Albert recommended me couple softwares, each for a specific use-case. I signed up for the free trial and tested all. Ended up activating 6 apps. Everything is running smooth 2 months so far. I love the personalized service that I get with them!

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Review Origin United States
5 stars review

n8n runs excellent

We needed to add the ffmpeg functionality to our n8n instance. I contacted their support team. They made the required changes in couple minutes and notified me. Usually for this type of service I would need to hire a developer on a hourly basis. Love them!

Review from David Hartmann

David Hartmann

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Smooth experience

I needed a way to manage the projects and files for my company. This was the first time I learn about opensource. I asked their support and livechat and they assisted me immediately. I started with Openproject. Later I added Nextcloud. My team were able to get used to the apps fast.

Review from Levi Nilsso

Levi Nilsson

Review Origin Norway
5 stars review

Bye GA

I wanted to replace GA with something but I didn't know the options. I talked with Jack on the livechat. Couple minutes after that, I have a running Matomo Analytics. They even configured the tracking and connected it with my website. I have only words of appreciation and respect!

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Wyatt Mitchell

Review Origin Canada
5 stars review

Love the freedom

I wanted to use a crm for my startup. I signed up for the free trial. Tried out espocrm and dolibar and picked one. Their dashboard is very easy for a beginner. I recommend them and feel confident in choosing them.

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Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Wow just wow

After discovering DANIAN, I wished I'd found them sooner — their solution is excellent and deserves wider recognition. Very good solution!

Review from Tyler Hollander

Tyler Hollander

Review Origin Canada
5 stars review

Professional tech support!

I thought that I knew what I was doing and I made changes in the Mattermost backend config file. Then it broke. I reached out to their tech and received an incredibly specific and fast response. They found the error fast and provided a clear solution.

Review from Bastian Engel

Bastian Engel

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Their support team is the best!

I had a problem with my card and the subscription could not be renewed in time. I notified their support and surprisingly, they showed much understanding. They basically left my apps run until I solved the card issue. Other providers would have deleted my data in a heartbeat. This is the way to build client-vendor trust!

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Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Fair price and fast

4 months ago I activated n8n, Uptime kuma, Vaultwarden and Paperlessngx. So far everything is perfect. The performance of all apps is excellent. I contacted their support team couple times for using custom subdomains for the apps and they were fast and kind. I'm constantly recommending them to my network!

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5 stars review

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I wanted to selfhost a passwords manager for my company but I didn't trust the mainstream providers. I tried out Vaultwarden for the free trial. I loved how their support team communicated with me professionally but still kind. I know that I can contact them whenever with whatever question I have. Recommended!

Review from James Smith

James Smith

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Multiple locations options

I run an agency. The majority of our clients are in different countries. I love that DANIAN has 20+ countries and I can spin up any app in any location. This gives us the freedom to focus on our clients. Sure, I can employee a dev in my team, but honestly, I prefer to not have those headaches. With DANIAN everything is running 24/7.

Review from Edward Nelson

Edward Nelson

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Everything just works!

My focus is on my business, not running servers. I love that I can lauch any app without having to think about the tech behind it. Everything just works!

Review from Tony Roy

Tony Roy

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Awesome support team!

I signed up for the free trial in order to test Chatwoot. I needed to put a livechat widget on my website but I don't have much tech experience. I contacted their support to see if they can assist. They went above and beyond by generating the livechat widget code for me and inserting it in my website. They answered all my additional questions. 

Review from Filip

Filip

Review Origin Austria
5 stars review

Very proactive!

Today couple of the videos on my Peertube got viral. Before I even noticed, their support have notified me via email that they proactively upgraded my app with more cpu & ram so that it continues to work without any downtime. They left the upgraded app with the added resources for couple days until the traffic stabilizes. After that I had the possiblity to stay on the same plan or keep the upgraded plan. Out of gratitude I stayed on the upgraded one.

Review from Luke Hall

Luke Hall

Review Origin Australia
5 stars review

Win-win!

I run a web design biz. After I perform the work for my clients, they constantly ask me for more software solutions. So I partnered with DANIAN. Not only I provide the requested softwares for my clients and get the increased revenue boost by delegating all to DANIAN, but also for those clients that wish to order directly from DANIAN, I send them an affiliate link. Win-win on all sides!

Review from Luke Walker

Luke Walker

Review Origin United Kingdom
5 stars review

Flexible

For the past couple months I was running many apps with DANIAN for my clients. But one of my clients wanted a software that isn't on the current list. I talked with their tech support. They accomodated me and added the software the same day. The next day, I signed for their Partners program. We will go long way together!

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Jeffrey Johnson

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Awesome customer service

I needed to add analytics on my website but I didn't know anything about DNS. Their team guided me at all phases and they performed the changes for me. Additionally they were transparent and notified me of every change applied and steps performed.

Review from Gabriele Marino

Gabriele Marino

Review Origin Italy
5 stars review

Good admin dashboard

Not only that I got Chatwoot, I also have access to the management dashboard. I love that I can view my hourly/daily usage and perform manual backups and restorations if needed. I don't need the level of control but it feels good to know that I have it if I need it.

Review from Matthew Turner

Matthew Turner

Review Origin Canada
5 stars review

Financially wise decision

Why install Chatwoot on a VPS that will cost me $20-25/month. Then worry about security, updates, backups, etc. Instead, I can activate it on DANIAN the same day for half the price. Plus, less headaches for maintenance. So happy I found out about this company!

Review from Andreas Schmitt

Andreas Schmitt

Review Origin Germany
5 stars review

Great service!

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Jacob Turner

Review Origin United States
5 stars review

Smooth experience

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Review from Elias Gustafsson

Elias Gustafsson

Review Origin Sweden
5 stars review

I love opensource software

2 days ago I haven't heard about opensource softwares. Today I'm running 4 apps and enjoying the trip. Hey, 1 month later I may become a developer, haha just kidding. Love you guys!

Review from Mason Hayes

Mason Hayes

Review Origin United Kingdom
5 stars review

Its a great service

Its a great service. I love the performance of my Mastodon community. It keeps on growing and I don't have any worries about backups, secuirity, updates, etc.

Review from Vinícius Rocha

Vinícius Rocha

Review Origin Brazil
5 stars review

Very intuitive solution!

I wanted to use a nocode software for my company. A friend recommended them so I tried both Baserow and NocoDB, couple days later picked one.

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Haruto Hashimoto

Review Origin Japan
5 stars review

Top-notch security

Honestly, I don't care much about performance and functionalities. I just wish to not bother with hacking attacks so that I can focus on my firm. I recommend them!

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Henrik Otto

Review Origin Germany
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USE CASES

Three teams who run Discourse on DANIAN

Discourse fits three shapes of team particularly well: open-source projects scaling community support, B2B SaaS companies deflecting tickets through public Q&A, and course creators running cohort communities. Different regions, different SSO, different plugin stacks — the underlying platform stays the same.

12-PERSON OPEN-SOURCE LIBRARY TEAM

Replacing GitHub Discussions for a 30,000-member developer community

Germany region, paired with the project's CI infrastructure. GitHub OAuth for SSO so contributors keep one identity. The discourse-github and chat-integration plugins for commit linking and release announcements. The solved plugin marks answers; trust level 3 auto-moderates the regulars. Custom domain community.{project}.org. Daily backups streamed to S3 in a separate region.

60-PERSON B2B SAAS COMPANY

Deflecting support tickets through a public customer community

USA region matching the product's primary instance. DiscourseConnect to existing WorkOS auth. Zendesk plugin for ticket escalation from community threads. The topic-voting plugin collects feature requests. Stripe via discourse-subscriptions runs a paid Power User tier. Webhooks fire to the HubSpot CRM on new signups. Custom domain community.{product}.com for organic search traffic.

INDEPENDENT COURSE CREATOR, 8,000 STUDENTS

A cohort-based community without losing every term's history

AUSTRALIA region for an APAC-heavy audience. Patreon plugin syncs paid tier to Discourse group memberships. The calendar and events plugins post cohort schedules. Per-cohort private categories auto-archive at term end. The gamification plugin runs a participation leaderboard. An n8n webhook forwards new signups to ConvertKit. Reply-by-email working since week one via the platform's SMTP relay.

COMPARISON

Four ways to run Discourse

Most teams considering Discourse weigh four paths. Pay for Discourse's own hosted plan and accept its limits. Self-host on a VPS and own the upgrade pain. Run a home server and learn what business-grade uplink costs. Or let us run it. Same software, four cost curves.

 PATH1 STAFF SEAT5 STAFF SEATS 10 STAFF SEATSOPS TIME / MONTH REGION CHOICE
Discourse hosted (Starter → Pro → Business)
$20/mo
Starter, 5 GB, no plugins, no custom domain
$100/mo
Pro, 20 GB, 15+ plugins, custom domain
$500/mo
Business, 100 GB, 20+ plugins, AI 1M credits/day
0 hours
Global or EU 
Self-host on a $24 / mo production-class VPS
$44/mo infra + €60–240 ops time = €100–280 effectiveSame range; single instance handles itLikely upsize to $48–96/mo VPS, same ops floor5–10 hrs setup + 1–2 hrs ongoing Wherever you can rent a VPS
Home server (Synology DS923+ or HP ProLiant ML30 Gen10)
€210–667/mo effective (hardware amortized + electricity + business internet + off-site backup + ops time)Same rangeSame range; uplink becomes the bottleneck2–4 hrs + on-call Wherever you live
DANIAN Managed Discourse€9/mo€9/mo€9/mo0 hours 21 locations, 6 continents

Discourse hosted plan limits as of May 2026 from discourse.org/pricing: Starter caps at 2 staff seats; Pro at 5 staff; Business at 15 staff. AI usage on Discourse hosted is metered daily; on DANIAN, you bring your own LLM API keys and meter on your side. Educational and non-profit discounts on Discourse hosted reduce its column meaningfully — DANIAN's row stays flat regardless of organization type.

BY INDUSTRY

Discourse for specific industries

Four industries put particular demands on community software: regulatory permanence for open-source software projects, learner-data care for online education, age-gating and moderation for gaming, and customer-data handling for SaaS support communities. Each gets a different default configuration on DANIAN.

DMCA Section 512 safe-harbor procedures matter for community forums that host code snippets, external links, and CVE reports. The OpenSSF Scorecard's "Vulnerability Disclosure" criterion now expects projects to expose a clear intake path — community forums are increasingly that path.

On DANIAN we default these instances to a region matching the project's CI infrastructure, wire SSO to GitHub OAuth so existing contributors keep one identity, and set the retention policy to forever — community memory is a feature, not a liability. Public-by-default categories with discourse-github auto-linking commits, PRs, and issues. Trust level 3 promotes veteran contributors to self-moderation without admin intervention.

The Let's Encrypt community runs on the same software and serves as the public support channel for an organization providing TLS certificates to 46% of the websites without a paid support function.
FERPA governs U.S. student-record handling for any university-affiliated course; COPPA applies if any learner is under 13; data-portability requests are routine when learners change institutions or graduate.

On DANIAN we default these instances to a region matching the student population, wire SSO via LTI 1.3 to the LMS (Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle) or SAML for institutional logins, and create per-cohort private categories with group-based permissions that auto-archive at term end. The policy plugin enforces syllabus acknowledgment before posting. The gamification plugin runs participation tracking for grading. Per-user data export from the admin panel handles institutional data requests.

Discourse's 85% educational discount on its hosted plan is the comparison baseline. On DANIAN, you pay €9 per app, flat, across cohort sizes.
COPPA age-gating at 13+ is mandatory for any general-audience gaming community in the U.S.; the UK Online Safety Act 2023 imposes illegal-content duties on platforms with UK users; the Digital Services Act extends notice-and-action obligations to consumer-facing platforms with a relatively small user base.

On DANIAN we default these instances to a region near the primary audience, enable Discourse's date-of-birth signup field for age confirmation, turn on hCaptcha and Discourse AI spam detection at sign-up, and pre-install chat and chat-integration so real-time activity and long-form discussion run in parallel.

Roblox Developer Forum and EVE Online both run on Discourse — the software handles the moderation and scale that creator communities of 50,000+ members actually generate.
Enterprise buyers expect their sub-processor list to be defensible; data-processing addendums and data-residency choices come up in procurement; latency parity with the product matters because users will compare community page-load to product page-load.

On DANIAN we default these instances to a region paired with the SaaS product's primary instance, wire DiscourseConnect to your existing auth provider (Okta, Auth0, WorkOS, Clerk), and pin the custom domain to community.{product}.com to capture organic search traffic on customer questions. Plugin defaults: Zendesk for ticket escalation, topic-voting for feature requests, assign for CSM ownership, data-explorer for engagement reporting, AI Search across every thread.

OpenAI, Elastic, GitLab, Docker, UiPath, Asana, Netlify, and Brave all run Discourse-powered customer communities on this pattern.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything teams ask before signing up — answered straight, without sales speak.

Three groups: technical setup, migration, and how DANIAN works as a service.

01

Technical and configuration

We pull every monthly release on a staging instance first, run the rebuild, smoke-test, and only then ship to production. When something breaks — as it did on May 7, 2025, after the nginx/conf.d/outlets/server/20-https.conf change — we catch it before our customers do.
Any community plugin — including ones flagged Enterprise-only on Discourse's own hosted comparison — installs on DANIAN. You can use the Terminal to install any plugin. The trade-off is that some unmaintained community plugins break on monthly releases.
Two paths: DiscourseConnect (Discourse's own SSO protocol, works with any auth provider) or standard OAuth / OIDC / SAML via the official discourse-openid-connect and discourse-saml plugins. The OIDC plugin's April 2026 update can sync group memberships from your provider to Discourse groups automatically.
Sidekiq runs Discourse's background jobs — emails, webhooks, search indexing, image processing, AI calls. When the queue stalls, the symptom is "emails stopped going out" or "image uploads silently failing." We monitor queue depth, job failure rates, and the Sidekiq UI on every instance. Alerts fire before customers notice.
Discourse multisite is technically supported but flagged "advanced sysadmin setup" by CDCK. We run multiple Discourse instances as separate apps at €9 each — simpler to reason about, easier to back up separately, and per-app billing scales linearly.
We tune Postgres shared_buffers to 25% of allocated RAM, work_mem for read-heavy forum traffic, and max_connections to leave headroom for Sidekiq's pool. Redis is sized for the cache hit rate the instance needs, with AOF persistence on. UNICORN_WORKERS is matched to your actual traffic pattern, adjusted as the instance grows.
Yes. The Discourse AI plugin is enabled by default; you provide OpenAI, Anthropic, or another LLM provider's API keys. Daily token usage is yours to meter; no DANIAN-imposed credit caps.
Discourse's minimum is 4 GB RAM with swap. Production sites with 10K monthly active members usually want 8 GB and 4 vCPUs — image processing and Sidekiq are the load drivers. We start instances at 4 GB / 1 vCPU and scale on request, no migration window needed.

02

Migration and onboarding

We can activate your app on your own custom domain/subdomain. Examples: mydomain.com, anyword.mydomain.com.
Or, on our randomized free subdomain. Example: 963.apps.danian.cloud
If you wish to use a custom domain/subdomain, select that option when ordering your app (or notify us later). We will send you the required DNS records and if needed, our tech team will modify them for you.
21 datacenter locations across six continents. You choose the region at provisioning. Application data sits in the region you choose; pick whichever is closest to your users or matches your data-residency preference.
Yes. Request a region migration from the dashboard and we run the move in the background. The system emails you when the migration completes; total transfer time depends on data volume but typical instances finish in a few hours. There is no extra charge for a region change.
Yes. Full data export is available at any time, in a portable format you can bring to any infrastructure.
Yes. Discourse maintains official importer scripts for phpBB, vBulletin, Vanilla, Invision (IPB), NodeBB, Drupal, Telligent, and Disqus. You are free to use them. Run the import on staging first, validate post counts and category mappings, then cut over with a planned DNS swap. Users keep their handles; passwords are reset (no source platform exports them in a usable form).
Discourse ships a Slack importer that pulls channels, threads, and attachments into Discourse categories and topics. Discord doesn't have a clean public export, so Discord imports rely on third-party scrapers — possible but slower. For Slack workspaces about to lose pre-September-2023 history, the import is the migration.
A medium-sized phpBB or vBulletin migration (10K topics, 200K posts) takes roughly two days of elapsed time — half of which is automated import runs on staging, half is manual review and DNS coordination.

03

Billing, support, and platform

€9 covers everything we do for that app: hardware in the region you choose, daily off-site backups with one-click restore, automatic security patches and version upgrades, 24/7 monitoring, SSL and firewall, and engineering support on Email/LiveChat. There are no setup fees or hidden line items. For more info see our Pricing page.
If you decide to continue, we charge €9/app/month from day 8. If you don't, the trial ends and you can export your data. No card is required for the trial, and we never auto-charge you without explicit consent.
No. The €9/month is flat regardless of how many users log into your app. Add 5 users or 50; the price doesn't change.
24/7 Live chat and email support, both staffed by engineers who run the systems. We handle DNS configuration, SMTP setup, app integrations, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and migration help. Response time is typically under an hour. There is no tier system — every customer gets the same support.
Yes. Cancel from the dashboard. We don't charge a cancellation fee, we don't lock data, and we will export your data to you on request before deletion. data to you on request before deletion.
Every customer instance is backed up daily to a separate region from the primary. We test restores. You can request a restore at any backup point within the retention window — usually 7 days for daily backups.
Your application data sits in the region you choose at provisioning — 21 datacenter locations across six continents. Account-level data (billing, account email, support ticket history) is processed centrally. Application data region is picked by you, per app.
99.9% uptime SLA on every app, every tenant. Service credits are documented at danian.co/service-level-agreement. The status page is located at status.danian.co.
When your tenant approaches the resource ceiling — the base tier holds 1 vCPU/RAM, 30 GB storage — we notify you. Resource upgrades happen with your explicit consent; we will not upgrade your tenant or charge you without it.
We wait. We don't suspend the app or delete your data on the first failed charge. We email you, you fix the card on file, and we continue.
Invoices can be downloaded from the billing dashboard in PDF the day each charge succeeds. EU VAT is added where applicable and the VAT-reverse-charge regime applies for VAT-registered businesses with a valid number.
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Yes. Every instance comes with a web-based terminal and a file manager in your DANIAN management dashboard. Useful for managing your data and customizations.
Resources scale with your usage. If your app needs more vCPU, RAM, or storage, we add it — and we ask first before any change to your plan. €9 is the floor; resource-heavy workloads may price higher, but you'll always know in advance.
Yes. We have both a Partner program and an Affiliate program available. Anybody can sign up.
No contract. No minimum commitment. Cancel anytime from the dashboard with one click. The 7-day free trial requires no credit card. After the trial converts to paid, you can still cancel at any month without notice or penalty.

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