Any news about Xenforo 3.0, can we expect modern forum?

[qnkov]

Hello. For half a year, I have been looking for a modern forum system to start an anime/manga site with various features. For example, a video system for watching movies/episodes, a way to add manga/anime as pages with information about them, topics with posters, etc. I saw that all of this is possible with Invision Community.

I waited to see version 5, but it turned out that the self-hosted platform is extremely expensive and has functionality limits. They also changed the way we acquire add-ons, significantly restricting options, and almost no themes exist for their latest version.

On the other hand, XenForo seems like a better alternative in terms of user base and price, but the forum and themes, in general, look like they’re from the early 2000s. I understand that some may find this nostalgic, but it looks incredibly outdated and is not visually appealing.

That’s why I’m wondering what exactly to expect with version 3.0. Can we anticipate a modern interface similar to Invision Community? I really don't want to go to invision as they may drop self-hosted in next version, as they aim for big comapanies, not common users now.

 

[Brad P]

I’ve been with XenForo since the very beginning, and yeah, the wait for 3.0 has definitely been a long one. I get why people are getting impatient, but honestly, big rewrites like this take time. They’ve said before it’s a full overhaul of the front end and a lot of the core code, so it’s not something they can just push out quickly.

I still have faith in the team. Every major release they’ve done before has been worth the wait, and I’d rather see them take their time and get it right than rush it. When it finally drops, I’m hoping it feels modern but still keeps that core XF simplicity that made it great from the start.

Enjoy Sunday everyone, the sun is shining in the UK

 

[TheGroove]

It could be that Xenforo has simply hit its plateau, I mean it works well as designed and does everything we really need a forum to do. Short of security updates it's hard to blame them for not wanting to continue development on what's essentially a dying platform since everything has moved to a world of social media.

Yes, existing customers want something new but with the low adoption rate of new forum sites nowadays what incentive they have to completely modernize it when so few will ever use it?

Personally speaking I've just been using Claude to write any enhancements I want on my board, unless it's something major you really don't need to hire a developer or wait anymore.

 

[smallwheels]

it's hard to blame them for not wanting to continue development on what's essentially a dying platform since everything has moved to a world of social media.

Well, obviously apart from the fact that it is the business of XF to develop it further and that the further developments have been announced and partly delivered with the last releases. I really don't what these destrutive statements shall achieve. We had these in a tsunami-like form towards the end of 2025 and we have seen for once what these did to the culture of the forum and secondly that it was simply made up fake news by destructive people and drama queens. One could have hoped that there was some learning from this episode - but it seems that some rather enjoy making up things and spreading fake news and FUD.

You claim the XF team would not want to continue development on XF. Where do you get this from? It is plain phantasy I'd say.

You further claim

the low adoption rate of new forum sites nowadays

- wehre do get this from? You either have internal sources or you make up things w/o any foundation once more.

If you think forums and specifically XF would be a dying or dead horse you should switch horses and everyone would be well served. You'd use a plattform that you consider to be not dead and the rest of the forum would suffer from less negativity, destructiveness, fake news and FUD.

 

[zappaDPJ]

- wehre do get this from? You either have internal sources or you make up things w/o any foundation once more.

As a member/admin of multiple forums that serve purely to promote other forums, I've seen within the last year or so far more than 100 new forums started on various platforms. The problem is I've seen a similar number of those disappear or left idle. There are some exceptions, forums started on Discourse and SaaS solutions do seem more likely to build a reasonable user base.

That's not to say forums are in anyway dead, far from it many still flourish but in the main it's rare to find a new forum gain any meaningful traction. If you know otherwise I'd be interested to see a few.

As far as Xenforo is concerned, it's probably still the best traditional forum option but as has been said multiple times, it's a small company, development is slow and there are other options which appear more likely to attract people who are new to forums. Nobody I know (apart from the odd 50+ year old forum owner) wants to see pagination on a phone and yet Xenforo doesn't even offer the option for scrolling.

A little modernisation on the user side could go along way to reverse the declining use of forums especially now that the more disposable content platforms within social media are in decline.

Fewer people posting on social media, Ofcom finds

Some experts believe it highlights a social media shift as platforms boost short video.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[smallwheels]

That's not to say forums are in anyway dead, far from it many still flourish but in the main it's rare to find a new forum gain any meaningful traction. If you know otherwise I'd be interested to see a few.

Even here in the forums there are regularly stories of new forums that gain traction within their niche or area. It's no news that forums were more common before all the other social media existed, that deliberately trigger the reward system in the human brain to create addiction and that this led to less usage of traditional forums. It has been discussed countless times on here. Yet still forums cover an area that those superficial media cannot cover and they are still well used. Some are part of the "the glass is half empty" brigade (and some claim "we will all die" or even "we have all died already").

For my part my forum is now 3,5 years old, it has now 3.500 members and still grows constantly, currently at a rate of 100-150 members monthly. I am absolutely fine with that and have no reason to complain. So I don't care what negativists say about forums dying b/c I do see the opposite every single day.

Claiming, like @TheGroove did, XF would

not wanting to continue development on what's essentially a dying platform since everything has moved to a world of social media

is simply fake news and desinformation on not just one level.

 

[cdub]

and still grows constantly, currently at a rate of 100-150 members monthly. I am absolutely fine with that and have no reason to complain

Those are phenomenal numbers!

 

[Forsaken]

It could be that Xenforo has simply hit its plateau, I mean it works well as designed and does everything we really need a forum to do. Short of security updates it's hard to blame them for not wanting to continue development on what's essentially a dying platform since everything has moved to a world of social media.

Yes, existing customers want something new but with the low adoption rate of new forum sites nowadays what incentive they have to completely modernize it when so few will ever use it?

Personally speaking I've just been using Claude to write any enhancements I want on my board, unless it's something major you really don't need to hire a developer or wait anymore.

Chris has talked specifically of details and plans a few times they have for XF going forward, as well as places that they want to improve. They have also made mention of how they are wanting to move XF from being a forum to a framework for building other applications on, which is already something others (DigitalPoint) have done successfully.

Not even going to get into you advising the use of AI over a developer .

 

[Austin Bollinger]

Internet forums are from the 1970s and 1980s.
That's probably an unpopular opinion, especially coming from someone who has run multiple forums and seen firsthand how powerful they can be. When leveraged well, forums aren't just message boards.. they are engines for collaboration, deep knowledge sharing, and even may drive real-world impact.

But Internet history cannot be dismissed.

We’ve seen entire eras of online interaction rise and fall:

• IRC once defined real-time communication
• Yahoo! Chat created massive social hubs
• MSN Messenger was the way people connected

All of them felt permanent at the time. None of them were.


The pattern is consistent: platforms emerge to make the internet faster, easier, and more interactive. They dominate. Then they fragment, evolve, or disappear - replaced by something that better matches how people currently want to communicate.

Forums aren’t immune to this.

They’re being squeezed by:

• Real-time platforms (Discord, Slack)
• Algorithm-driven content (Reddit, X, TikTok)
• Lower attention spans and faster content cycles

Forums require patience, structure, and long-form engagement. The modern internet rewards speed, visibility, and constant novelty.

That doesn't mean forums are useless - or dead overnight. Far from it. In the right niche, with strong moderation and purpose, they can still outperform anything else.

But the broader trend is hard to ignore:
What once made forums powerful is no longer what the average user wants.

And like every major platform before them, they may not disappear - but they will fade into something much smaller than what they once were. It is basically a guarantee.

Where am I going with this?
By the time version 3.0 comes around, forums may not be as relevant as they once were.

Consider the concept that we have these ways to communicate, online.
Over the wire: SMS, email, instant messaging, team chat platforms (like Slack), forums, social media feeds, comment systems, live chat, video conferencing chat, VoIP calls, push notifications, newsletters, blogs, microblogs, community platforms, Q&A platforms, collaborative docs, shared workspaces, ticketing systems, and even legacy protocols like IRC.

So at the end of the day, you really have to ask the question - what problem do Internet forums solve that the tightening grip of all these alternatives cannot? It's a trick question really. Already I see across many forums, chat boxes somewhere or links to more real-time comms. Which these plugins/add-ons themselves undermine the very purpose of a forum at all.

I also wanted to mention a recent trend throughout all of tech, in general. What stops someone from taking various forum platforms, training AI models onto the programming styles of any/all. Then "Now generate a modern login/register," btw Mr/Ms. LLM consider the latest stable PHP docs. Effectively generating their very own AI-assisted codebase. Would it be pretty? No. Would it work on the first try? No.

But it absolutely could make for arriving to a core, and have any/all plugins, themes, etc wrapped all around it. Giving the best from VB, XF, and all-the-rest perhaps. Like build-a-bear-workshop, but "rapid evolvement of forums," to include all the most loved features quicker than human teams can deliver. That would be any practical anythingv3.0 in this era. There is a favorite quote of mine from somewhere: write drunk, edit sober. This effectively can pair nicely into the AI times. One can quickly have modern programmer-assisted tech become an entire team that can adopt the styles of phpbb, vb, xf, and all of them. Heck even "take the best of Ghost, WordPress, Squarespace," really anything one can imagine for a blog plugin. It is to a point where it is scary rapid, for prototyping!

All one needs to do is make a tremendously granular/modular variant of what I am saying, and pretty much ~everything is toast

 

[devnull]

IMO XF has hit peak threaded forum design - if you look at the newcomers like Discourse - their layout is largely the same, just with a few 'whizzbang web 3.0' tricks (and frankly the newer versions of Discourse have moved well beyond modernising discussion forums.into a 'one stop shop' IRC/forum/live chat/everything solution.

I speak as someone that migrated their site from XF > Discourse for about 18 months and back to XF.

XenForo is quality software that has stood the test of time. Does it really need modernising?
Yes it might feel old school compared to social media - but in my opinion we're sort of at a 'post social media' stage now. Forums appear to be slightly coming back into vogue again - and we've all supposed to be circling the drain for years but my site shows little to no signs of slowing down.

 

[smallwheels]

Forums appear to be slightly coming back into vogue again - and we've all supposed to be circling the drain for years but my site shows little to no signs of slowing down.

I would differenciate a bit more: Before modern social media existed forums served the purposes that social media fulfill as well. Not too surprisingly modern social media does some things better than forums ever did and can do it: They are easier to access, quicker to digest, can easier be used on mobile phones due to native apps and trigger the human reward system more intensively (as they are designed for that purposefully to create addiction as part of their business model). What modern social media can only deliver to a very limited degree is to create real human interaction, real trustful and long standing communities, deliver reliable information and in depth discussions and discussions that last longer than a couple of days, let alone a searchable history that is actually usable and useful as a reference.

So basically modern social media is for the most part superficial and only usable at present and optimized for that. It is optimized for, fast, easy usage, short attention spans and, emotion, superlatives, sensationalism and entertainment. Forums that served these purposes lost against social media and won't win back again as social media serves all of that better. Which is btw. also true for traditional media that served these purposes.

In opposite forums that served one or more purposes that social media does not serve may lose a bunch of users but for the most part users that are not a huge loss in terms of content quality. Those forums may even gain new users (or old users back again) as a lot of people have become tired of the permanent superlatives on social media which is tiring and does not deliver anything good or anything of relevance. This trend has become more intense more or less recently in my opinion as influencers, bot and disinformation took over social media and made it even more unreliable and more annoying than before. What I see on my forum is two things: A lot of old and new users are part of the generation 40+ (which partly also corresponds with the main age group of my forum topic) and lots of them do use other social media for entertainment and to a degree also to gain news, but when it comes to reliable information, problem solving or real community and human interaction they come to the forum.

For my forum topic there exists a reddit community which is really fast at news but absolutely horrible in terms of reliable information - it is a permanent source of misinformation and wider parts are kind of intagram for people unable/uncomfortable to use instagram: People post "I am new to the topic", "I've bought this and that" and other superficial self promotion or entry level stuff. There are also a couple of facebook communities for my forum topic that are more intense / less entry level but still lack reliability and details plus the whole reference/hostiory/long-term-discussion part is missing completely due to the nature of facebook. There are a couple of youtube-channels but they are mainly run by self-promoters that lack knowledge and favor sensationalism. Sometimes interesting but rarely and clearly neither reliable nor a community for exchange. There are a lot of people on instagram but it is the same, as the whole platform is about self promotion and not about building a community: it is superficial as core part of the concept.

So if your forum delilvers what modern social media cannot and will not deliver you probably won't have a problem. However: It needs active work to build such a culture, to build a community and to care for reliability and fight disinformation. Still you will probably have less users than two decades ago and clearly it is in opposite to back then not enough to install a forum software, do nothing else and earn money from advertizing. If you forum is mainly entertainment it may still work but it will have a hard competition through social media.

Content is still king, the styling is the icing on the cake but can't compensate lack of content or bad community management (or the total lack thereof) or a missing concept for your forum. That said some modernisation in style and usability of XF would be welcome and come in handy, but it is far from bad as it is now. Just some concepts do not work (or never have worked) the optics has become somewhat old fashioned and users do sometimes have a hard time with usability. Yet still: If I had to choose between fancier looks and a search that actually works better than the current one I'd clearly choose the search.

So while I am interested to see what XF3.0 will bring I do not at all share the expectations of some on here that it will massively change the downwards trend they have in their forums b/c the reason for that is not caused by the style.

 

[Max Fridman]

I speak as someone that migrated their site from XF > Discourse for about 18 months and back to XF.

Discourse is one of the platforms, if not the only one I would consider, for creating a forum besides XenForo. This is also due to its integration with the Ghost CMS (something XenForo should emulate with both WordPress and Ghost). If I may ask, what made you decide to come back to Xenforo?

Discourse has made significant improvements over time, while Xenforo remains stuck in old ways (such as the entire trophy management system) these are minor examples of “primitive” features that are small in the grand scheme of things.

Still, it wouldn’t hurt to see improvements over the years. But I’ll say it again: everything can be “managed” with third-party add-ons, like Trophy Points, Badges, and so on. And that’s why, if I were to start a community, despite all of Xenforo’s issues, I’d still choose it.

And I really hope that Chris or whoever is in charge will get off their butts and start releasing updates. To make my life just a little bit easier.

If that happens, great; if not, so be it. I'm fine with just the security updates.

XenForo is quality software that has stood the test of time.

I don’t agree with all the doom-and-gloom posters on this site. They’ve been repeating the same things incessantly for 10 years. Obviously, running a forum in 2026 is difficult. It’s hard to do it from scratch, actually, very hard. You need the ability to run an online business as a one-man army and spend significant amounts of money.

Become an expert in a niche, conduct a thorough market analysis, and so on. But it’s not impossible. There are niches that can be studied and targeted.

I’ve provided strategic consulting to aspiring Xenforo forum founders on numerous occasions, and many of them don’t realize that nowadays (unlike in the past) it’s a real business and should be treated as such. And very often people tell me I don’t understand anything. Yet they clearly have no idea how to tackle the problem.

I’ve been doing SEO and content marketing and managing websites and forums for over 10 years. I've grown websites from zero to four figures in annual revenue. I don’t claim to always be right. But I think I do understand a thing or two. If anyone is reading this thread: If you think you can just start an online forum, “call it a day,” and people will automatically show up, forget it.

Starting forums and communities is hard work. Real, relentless work. And it takes years to build from scratch or thousands of euros in advertising investments.

It's better to let it go than to sit here complaining that their site isn’t growing, that they can’t make money, that they don’t understand why, and that Xenforo needs to be updated.

Deluding themselves that, with some miraculous update, Google will decide to index their nonexistent content and showcase it to billions of users so they can match the monthly active users of Facebook and Instagram, forum owners don't even know which metrics to track to determine whether their site is “successful” or not.

Forums appear to be slightly coming back into vogue again - and we've all supposed to be circling the drain for years but my site shows little to no signs of slowing down.

Furthermore, with the advent of AI-generated citations, forum content has become relevant again—at least for sites with a modicum of authority according to Google. Reddit is now increasingly being exploited to manipulate search results on AI Mode and similar platforms. In fact, they’re starting to create verified profiles to better control who responds.

The strength of the web has always been its decentralized nature and the fact that it allows so many people to engage in a “labor of love” for their niche.

Google has made billions by indexing all that work and presenting it to users who need one thing rather than another. Google doesn’t create any content from scratch; it simply makes it available to those who need it. It’s all the work behind the scenes that’s the hardest, most relentless, and most detailed.

Does your website meet these needs? Have you built a strong community around a topic? A passionate one. You don’t need 10,000 daily users. 100 is enough. Or even 50.

In short, design isn't the problem. It's about running a business effectively and efficiently.

 

[Faust]

@Max Fridman , everything you mentioned is right. I only pop here one a month to see what’s going on, o forgot amount forums, and that’s not something I would be interested to grow in the future. The needs of internet has shifted.

I still own my 3 forums, and by the look of it, last one took off a bit which I’m happy, but I’m not where to make money from none of them.

Google Adsense is crap, no even worth to have it on the website.

I’ve been doing SEO and content marketing and managing websites and forums for over 10 years. I've grown websites from zero to four figures in annual revenue

Would definitely love to know why niche those websites were.

 

[devnull]

Discourse is one of the platforms, if not the only one I would consider, for creating a forum besides XenForo. This is also due to its integration with the Ghost CMS (something XenForo should emulate with both WordPress and Ghost). If I may ask, what made you decide to come back to Xenforo?

Simple reason: it absolutely tanked my SEO (even with ensuring all the links translated over properly).
JS app vs 'good old fashioned' HTML/CSS.

And honestly, for a startup site, you need to either spend a lot on a hosted solution or run a relatively hefty VPS. There's a bit of a learning curve if you're new to Docker containers.
Xenforo you can buy a licence, upload to just about any webhost and off you go - no huge technical understanding needed other than creating a DB and setting nameservers on your domain.

I'm in a fortunate position where I run my site more for the passion, fun and learning of doing it rather than anything else - absolutely agree with the rest of your points that it is incredibly hard to find any commercial success with a forum in 2026 without a lot of grunt work - and to think in the 'glory days' I was earning $xxx monthly from adsense and sponsored posts, without even really trying.

These days I run zero ads. It's mostly a hobby project that helps to keep my sysadmin and development skills sharp. And my site is way, way slower than the big-ish board I had running 2005-2013, but I'm happy with that as I'm no longer a bored teenager and have other things in life to deal with!

 

[Austin Bollinger]

Simple reason: it absolutely tanked my SEO (even with ensuring all the links translated over properly).
JS app vs 'good old fashioned' HTML/CSS.

And honestly, for a startup site, you need to either spend a lot on a hosted solution or run a relatively hefty VPS. There's a bit of a learning curve if you're new to Docker containers.
Xenforo you can buy a licence, upload to just about any webhost and off you go - no huge technical understanding needed other than creating a DB and setting nameservers on your domain.

I'm in a fortunate position where I run my site more for the passion, fun and learning of doing it rather than anything else - absolutely agree with the rest of your points that it is incredibly hard to find any commercial success with a forum in 2026 without a lot of grunt work - and to think in the 'glory days' I was earning $xxx monthly from adsense and sponsored posts, without even really trying.

These days I run zero ads. It's mostly a hobby project that helps to keep my sysadmin and development skills sharp. And my site is way, way slower than the big-ish board I had running 2005-2013, but I'm happy with that as I'm no longer a bored teenager and have other things in life to deal with!

I have pulled $4,000 in a 24h period with my forum. I used to have the Stripe csv exports and screen caps to show it.

Anyone CAN do it, just about the demand and an existing payer that WOULD. When you mix can and would, you get gold.

I do not stay as deep nowadays admittedly. But I will share I have worked with multiple proxy architectures anywhere from configuring balancing proxies, to many large VPS that got shutdown, dedicated servers with containers and DoS protections to block L7 attacks myself because Cloudflare isn’t perfect.

The age of the Internet is shifting toward hyper-mobile, hyper-app, and “right now” which means if a thread doesn’t get a response - then people go away. Humans are creatures of habit. Once they establish their “I check my discord each morning,” then onto Reddit, etc. it’s very painful to pry people away without some wildly niche content. Even then making money now gets more bizarre. Anyways I just had to fight with this Textarea and controls on my iOS device to the point if I didn’t LOVE XenForo deep down I would not come back lol

 

[smallwheels]

You need the ability to run an online business as a one-man army

I would absolutely second that it is a good idea to look at your forum as a product, no matter if you intend to earn money with it or not. Earning serious (or any) money with a forum in 2026 is probably hard (I never had the intention to do it, so no experience), running it as a hobby w/o commercial interests gives more freedom. Yet, to make it work it needs loads of time and a business attitude. If you want to earn money I wouldn't say it would be impossible but there are probably thousands of possiblities where you will earn more, more reliably and with less stress, effort and time invest.

There will be exceptions for sure - but if you want to earn money with your forum it needs a totally different mindset than for a non-commercial forum and success is far from guaranteed.

and spend significant amounts of money.

Wouldn't agree here. Shared hosting is suffient, so the monthly cost is low. Initial licensing may seem not too cheap but extensions are. So you can run a forum on a shoestring and it is surprisingly cheap. If you install a lot of paid add ons this will open a lot of possibilities but it will turn out that it rises the monthly/yearly cost significantly - I do pay way more for add on updates per year than I pay for the XF license.

 

[Austin Bollinger]

I would absolutely second that it is a good idea to look at your forum as a product, no matter if you intend to earn money with it or not. Earning serious (or any) money with a forum in 2026 is probably hard (I never had the intention to do it, so no experience), running it as a hobby w/o commercial interests gives more freedom. Yet, to make it work it needs loads of time and a business attitude. If you want to earn money I wouldn't say it would be impossible but there are probably thousands of possiblities where you will earn more, more reliably and with less stress, effort and time invest.

There will be exceptions for sure - but if you want to earn money with your forum it needs a totally different mindset than for a non-commercial forum and success is far from guaranteed.


Wouldn't agree here. Shared hosting is suffient, so the monthly cost is low. Initial licensing may seem not too cheap but extensions are. So you can run a forum on a shoestring and it is surprisingly cheap. If you install a lot of paid add ons this will open a lot of possibilities but it will turn out that it rises the monthly/yearly cost significantly - I do pay way more for add on updates per year than I pay for the XF license.

If you are stating shared hosting works just fine - I am not trying to revoke your wisdom any amount. I promise on this.

Almost all shared hosting providers will SHUTDOWN your website if anyone attacks your web forum. Given the simplicity to drive a CPU spike on many websites nowadays especially behind shared hosting - it’s just a matter of when. That being said, your shared hosting forum is one L7 attack away from RIP. If someone wants to make money that is an instant no-go because down websites make no money. And even hobby websites should aspire to not go down easily.

 

[Faust]

If you are stating shared hosting works just fine - I am not trying to revoke your wisdom any amount. I promise on this.

Almost all shared hosting providers will SHUTDOWN your website if anyone attacks your web forum. Given the simplicity to drive a CPU spike on many websites nowadays especially behind shared hosting - it’s just a matter of when. That being said, your shared hosting forum is one L7 attack away from RIP. If someone wants to make money that is an instant no-go because down websites make no money. And even hobby websites should aspire to not go down easily.

Never had any issues running all my websites on shared hosting. I only have one websites on VPS due of its nature.

I guess depends who is your provider…

 

[smallwheels]

Almost all shared hosting providers will SHUTDOWN your website if anyone attacks your web forum.

So you know all shared hosting providers and their acting when it comes to an attack? Does not sound plausible.

even hobby websites should aspire to not go down easily.

So you ignore for one the existence of Cloudflare and secondly state that probably 80% of website owners act irresponsibly as probably most websites are running on shared hosting. Has however nothing at all to do with the tread topic.

 

[Austin Bollinger]

I guess depends who is your provider…

I don't believe this behavior is dependent on the provider. If it appears to be, that typically indicates a lower-quality hosting environment. The fundamental premise of shared hosting is that server resources are distributed across multiple customers and intentionally overcommitted to accommodate occasional traffic spikes (not a prolonged L7 attack that will lead to suspension or outright banning).

These shared platforms are not designed for sustained high resource usage across multiple tenants. For example, if several sites consistently consume 30-40% CPU each, the environment would become unstable. Providers generally assume that spikes are temporary, and not for a prolonged period such as hours. If your website is attacked for hours on shared hosting, you will basically be shutdown. If not, we can stress test it together if you want. or just read the ToS/AuP (which I would do first before even doing a L7 stress test).

So you ignore for one the existence of Cloudflare and secondly state that probably 80%

Now you are spitting random 'facts'. Please cite where almost all hobby forums are running on shared web hosting. I would say more people have likely graduated to a VPS, or dedicated server due to some of the reasons I am sharing above. Not to mention, you will notice random sluggish performance when resource exhaustion does occur even outside the scope of your shared website - leading to poor website load times. This is punishable and will dwindle SEO score ranks away over time (your fighting CHANCE would be caching and minimizing back-end load reliance).

Edit: for smallwheels - yeah this does have to do with any forum version, or web-based software platform. Because if websites can be attacked and shutdown, then it drives decision-making on whether to use L7 vulnerable options or drift over into the realm of "just running a Reddit," heh.

 

[Faust]

These shared platforms are not designed for sustained high resource usage across multiple tenants. For example, if several sites consistently consume 30-40% CPU each, the environment would become unstable. Providers generally assume that spikes are temporary, and not for a prolonged period such as hours. If your website is attacked for hours on shared hosting, you will basically be shutdown. If not, we can stress test it together if you want. or just read the ToS/AuP (which I would do first before even doing a L7 stress test).

First of all, you need to have a website worth of being attacked. If the website is that worth, you won’t be running it on shared hosting.

As said , I have never had any issues running my websites on shared hosting. Also, all my websites has Anti-DDos security.