Membership Sites
We run the infrastructure behind membership sites on platforms like BuddyBoss, Discourse, and WordPress — so your community stays online during launches, relaunches, and the occasional viral post.
Communities break differently from the average website — the load is active, the data is personal, and the subscription logic has a hundred edge cases. We handle that end of things so you can focus on the community itself.
What we actually look after
Forum & community platforms
Discourse, phpBB, Flarum, NodeBB, BuddyBoss — deployed, customised and kept up to date with sensible moderation tooling.
WordPress membership sites
BuddyBoss, MemberPress, Paid Memberships Pro — set up properly, with the back-end plumbing developers tend to skip.
Subscription billing
Tiered memberships, free trials, dunning, VAT. Without leaving revenue on the table to failed payments.
Scales for launches & spikes
Auto-scaling and caching tuned for concurrent logged-in users — not just anonymous page-views.
Security & member-data protection
Hardened admin, 2FA, account-takeover detection, GDPR-compliant data handling. Member trust matters.
Backups that actually restore
Off-site, tested, restorable inside an hour. A community's history isn't something you get back if it's gone.
Moderation & trust tools
Moderator dashboards, abuse detection, report queues, and rate limits on the common abuse vectors.
Community analytics
Engagement metrics without surveilling individual members. Understand what's working, drop what isn't.
Discourse, BuddyBoss or phpBB getting slow?
It's a common place we come in — stabilise the infrastructure, fix the slow areas, let you go back to focusing on the community itself.
Also happy to set up
- Gamification — reputation, badges, leaderboards
- Newsletter integration and member digests
- Event systems and meetup tools
- Matrix / Discord bridging
- Knowledge bases and Q&A sections
- Federated social (Mastodon-style) for your community
Most communities start with us when they hit a wall — slow at peak time, a security scare, a subscription mess. We fix that first, quietly. First conversation's free.