4ga Boards Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

4ga Boards hosting gives your team realtime Kanban boards on your own domain. Deploy 4ga Boards 3.3.13 as a self-hosted Kanban board app: xCloud runs the pinned image with a private PostgreSQL 18 database, generates the administrator password and session secret, keeps boards, attachments, avatars and backgrounds on persistent volumes and publishes it over HTTPS, with sign-up closed so only users you create can sign in.

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What is 4ga Boards?

Self-hosted 4ga Boards is a Kanban board app. Its README calls it a straightforward boards system for realtime project management, with a multi-level hierarchy of projects, boards, lists, cards and tasks, export and import of boards, an advanced Markdown editor, a dark mode and updates without reloading the page. It is a fork of Planka maintained by RARgames, released under the MIT licence, and its board import can read Trello boards.

On xCloud the template runs the official ghcr.io/rargames/4gaboards 3.3.13 image beside a private PostgreSQL 18.6 database, both pinned by immutable digest. Four volumes persist the database, attachments, avatars and background images. HTTPS is published on your domain, an administrator is created with a generated password, and self-registration is off. The template configures no SMTP or SSO.

From Sign-Up to a Live Kanban Board In Just 3 Easy Steps

A 4ga Boards stack normally means an app container, a PostgreSQL database, a session secret, four volumes, a domain and a certificate before the first card. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick 4ga Boards from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and target server, then enter the administrator email — it is the only field.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official 4ga Boards image and a private PostgreSQL 18.6 database kept off the public internet, mount the boards_db, boards_attachments, boards_user_avatars and boards_background_images volumes, generate the admin password, session secret and database password, and publish it over HTTPS.
Step 03
Sign In And Add Your Team
Give the first start a minute or two to run its database migrations, then open your HTTPS 4ga Boards URL and sign in with the admin email (or the username admin) and the generated password. Change that password, then create your team's users from the administration area.

Everything 4ga Boards Does, On Your Own Server

4ga Boards runs in full here: realtime Kanban boards on your own domain, backed by a database you own.

Projects, Boards, Lists And Cards
Organise work in a hierarchy of projects, boards, lists, cards and tasks, with labels and attachments on each card.
Realtime Updates
The web app updates live without reloading the page, so several people can work on the same board at once.
Board Import And Export
Export boards, or import them — including from Trello — when you create a new board inside a project.
Markdown Editor And Dark Mode
Write card descriptions in an advanced Markdown editor, and switch to the built-in dark mode.
Login-Gated By Default
Self-registration is off, so an administrator creates each user from the admin area. The upstream admin/admin and demo/demo defaults were rejected in QA.
Private PostgreSQL Included
PostgreSQL 18.6 has no host ports and is reachable only on the install's internal Docker network.

Everything You Need To Run Your Kanban Boards 24/7

Managed hosting for 4ga Boards, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

4ga Boards 3.3.13 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin password generated for you
Private PostgreSQL database
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
Choose your server region
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With 4ga Boards

Track a small team's projects
Give a team shared boards where every project, list and card is visible to the people you add, with no per-seat SaaS plan.
Keep project data on your own server
Hold boards, uploaded attachments and the database on a VPS you control rather than a third-party service.
Move boards over from Trello
Add a project, then use Import while creating a new board to bring an existing Trello board across.
Break work into tasks and checklists
Use cards with tasks, labels and attachments, and collapse lists and the sidebar to keep large projects readable.

4ga Boards Screenshots

4ga Boards dark-mode board with a Done list holding one completed card, a project sidebar and card filters

4ga Boards vs Alternatives

Trello: 4ga Boards keeps boards in a PostgreSQL database on your own Cloud VPS, and its board import at v3.3.13 includes a Trello importer for bringing existing boards across.
Planka: Planka is the Kanban app 4ga Boards was forked from, with its own xCloud template. 4ga Boards lists, per its README, a dark mode, board export and import and an advanced Markdown editor.
Vikunja: Vikunja is an open-source task and project manager with its own xCloud template. 4ga Boards concentrates on realtime Kanban boards with projects, lists, cards and tasks.
Kanboard: Kanboard is a self-hosted Kanban app with its own xCloud template. 4ga Boards is a realtime web app that updates live without reloading, built around projects, boards, lists and cards.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for 4ga Boards hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom for large attachment collections or other tools on the same server.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. 4ga Boards itself is licensed by its maintainers under the MIT licence.

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Ready To Run Your Own Kanban Boards?

4ga Boards on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

How much RAM does 4ga Boards need?

The manifest asks for 1 CPU core, 1024 MB of RAM and 5 GB of disk, and QA measured about 147 MiB for the app and database together. This page's 6 GB Cloud VPS is comfortably above that real headroom, which matters as attachments and background images accumulate.

Is 4ga Boards free and open source?

Yes. 4ga Boards is MIT licensed, per the LICENSE file at the v3.3.13 tag, so nothing is paid for the application. xCloud invoices only the dedicated Cloud VPS. Upstream also sells its own hosting, which is a separate service this template does not use.

Can you run 4ga Boards with Docker?

Yes, and this is 4ga Boards Docker hosting prepared for you. The template runs ghcr.io/rargames/4gaboards 3.3.13 image beside PostgreSQL 18.6, both pinned by immutable digest, with four named volumes and HTTPS on your domain, so you write no compose file.

Is 4ga Boards the same as Planka?

No. 4ga Boards is a fork of Planka maintained by RARgames and released under the MIT licence, with its own features such as dark mode, board import and export and an advanced Markdown editor. xCloud has a separate template for Planka, and this one deploys the official 4ga Boards image.

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Can I import Trello boards into 4ga Boards?

Yes. Add a project, then use Import while creating a new board to bring an existing board across, including from Trello. Board imports can be up to 100 MiB, but if the site is proxied through Cloudflare its 100 MB request limit on Free and Pro plans can block the largest ones.

Can anyone register on my 4ga Boards server?

Not by default. Self-registration is off, so an administrator creates each user from the admin area, and the upstream admin/admin and demo/demo defaults were rejected in QA. If you enable sign-up in the administration settings, anyone who can reach the URL can register.

Does 4ga Boards send email?

No. The template has no SMTP support, so email notifications and email verification are not available. The upstream README lists SSO logins with Google, GitHub, Microsoft and OIDC, but the template configures none, so users sign in with accounts you create. The first administrator uses the email you entered, or admin, with the generated password.

Does 4ga Boards make outbound requests?

Yes. On every start the app contacts notifications.4gaboards.com with the site URL, the server's public IP and a random instance ID. The template sets the upstream opt-out flag, but that request still happens, so factor it in if your network policy is strict.

What should I back up on a 4ga Boards server?

A backup needs all four volumes together: boards_db, boards_attachments, boards_user_avatars and boards_background_images, plus the generated environment values. A pg_dump gives a consistent database copy. Keep copies off the server and test a restore before you rely on them.

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How do I upgrade 4ga Boards?

Nothing upgrades it for you: the template pins 3.3.13 by immutable digest. Back up all four volumes first, read the upstream release notes, then adopt a newer xCloud template version, and check that a card created before the upgrade is still there.

Is this 4ga Boards cloud hosting?

It is your own 4ga Boards on a dedicated Cloud VPS that xCloud provisions, not upstream's Professional Hosting. The app, the PostgreSQL database and all four volumes belong to your install, and the web app is served over HTTPS on your domain.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.