Focalboard Self Host Guide

Introduction

Focalboard is an open source, multilingual, self-hosted project management tool that's an alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.

Features

• It helps define, organize, track and manage work across individuals and teams. Focalboard comes in three editions:

• Focalboard plugin: The Focalboard plugin integrates into an exsting Mattermost instance to combine project management tools with messaging and collaboration for teams of all sizes.

• Personal Desktop: A standalone, single-user macOS, Windows, or Linux desktop app for your own todos and personal projects.

• Personal Server: A standalone, multi-user server for development and personal use.

How to Self Host

Step 1

Before you start, you've to make sure you have an account on Zeabur. If you don't have an account, you can create one here.

Step 2

After you've successfully created an account, you can follow the steps below to deploy Focalboard on Zeabur:

• Press on the deploy button below to deploy Focalboard on Zeabur.

• You will be redirected to the Zeabur dashboard, where you can see the Focalboard deployment. Within one minute, you will see the service starts running.

• Now you can access the Focalboard dashboard using the domain you've bound to it.