RaxBoard is a small, opinionated software studio. We build the forum we wanted to use ourselves — fast, calm, and out of the way.
RaxBoard is a modern, self-hosted PHP forum platform. It runs on shared hosting, talks to a SaaS licensing service for updates and add-ons, and respects your data: you host it, you own it.
Calm by default. No notifications you didn't ask for, no surprise upsells, no AI features tacked on for the press release. Opinionated. Threads, polls, reactions, custom fields, deep moderation — all native. No plugin stitching to ship a basic feature. Member-respecting. We never sell your community's data. We never embed third-party trackers in the forum. Self-host first. Your data lives on your server. The licensing service controls updates and entitlements only.
License verify and update responses are signed with Ed25519 detached signatures over a JWS structure. Webhooks between the licensing service and your forum use HMAC-SHA256 with replay protection. Passwords are hashed with Argon2id. All traffic is HTTPS with HSTS and is fronted by Cloudflare.
Sales and partnerships: [email protected]. Support: open a ticket from the client area at https://raxboard.com/en/support. Security disclosures: [email protected].