What are the system requirements for running an offsite installation?
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Depends on the size of your forum. The software required also depends on how you want to run it (what database, etc), but you find that information in docs.nodebb.org
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Hey there @lolwhat -- the requirements are fairly minimal, you can actually get a NodeBB running on the original Raspberry Pi ... not that I would recommend it, but you can!
In general, 512mb RAM, a fairly healthy chunk of hard drive space (esp. if you're using local uploads), is all you'll require.
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I really don't know about that 512MB of ram, It might run fine on that small amount, but I was running out of memory on the
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If you setup a file based swapfile using something like dphys-swapfile then that should overcome the issue. On a 512MB system it will create a 1GB swap that can be used for overfill. I had another node.js install crap out on me with just 512MB of ram but doing the swap overcame that and it was fine after.
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@Bri said in What are the system requirements for running an offsite installation?:
I really don't know about that 512MB of ram, It might run fine on that small amount, but I was running out of memory on the
npm installalone.Really? Oh geez... maybe that's an npm3 thing, since we've never had trouble with it on those smaller droplets in our experience...
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@Bri said in What are the system requirements for running an offsite installation?:
I really don't know about that 512MB of ram, It might run fine on that small amount, but I was running out of memory on the
npm installalone.I was running my forum pretty well on the 512MB Digital Ocean box. It actually ran well beyond about 25 503 errors a day from nodeBB: https://community.nodebb.org/topic/9109/503-temporarily-unavailable-due-to-excessive-load
