What is AsmBB?
AsmBB is very fast and lightweight web forum engine written by JohnFound . (You are reading this article on AsmBB.org forum).
AsmBB is fully written in assembly language and uses SQLite as a database back-end. That is why it can work on really weak hosting and in the same time serve huge amount of visitors without lags and delays.
AsmBB is very secure web application, because of the internal design and the reduced dependencies. But it also supports encrypted databases, for even higher security.
In addition, AsmBB has very few requirements to the running environment:
- x86 Linux server.
- No matter 32 or 64bit. No need to have any specially preinstalled libraries.
- The smallest/cheapest VPS is fine. Shared hosting is fine as well (if supports FastCGI).
- A web server supporting FastCGI interface. AsmBB has been tested with Nginx, Apache, Lighttpd, Hiawatha and of course RWASA.
AsmBB is easy for customizing and modifying - it uses pretty powerful template system that allows easy customizing of the forum without actually modifying the code. (which is not so hard though).
Download, install and hack
Download the binary package directly: asmbb.tar.gz (this link always points to the latest version of the binary package).
Follow the progress, report bugs and clone the source: AsmBB source repository
Install on your own server and have the fastest forum ever: Tutorial about installation with NGINX and systemd
Install for less than 2 minutes with RWASA: Video tutorial (on YouTube as well)