Please suggest good way to setup

Aditya Bhardwaj229

I want to host a nodebb forum. Also would like to have a local installation to tinker with the codebase.

hosting / server

What is a good way to host?

Intending to go with postgres. Is there and cons (and pros?) compared to mongo?

Should I go for dockerized / serverless hosting or the old style VM approach? How is the support for serverless installation?

local setup

Again thinking to go with postgres, is there any (de)merit compared to mongo?

Any good practices to consider for local development? I was suggested podman to use for local development. Is it worth using?

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according to their documentation nodebb only supports mongodb or redis.

nodebb is easy enough without docker, just need nodejs and the db, and use the cli ./nodebb start ./nodebb stop etc.

i use a oneshot systemd service to start it at boot:

[Unit]
Description=mpp.community nodebb
After=mongod.service

[Service]
User=mppc
Group=mppc
WorkingDirectory=/srv/mppc/forum/
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/srv/mppc/forum/nodebb start
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStop=/srv/mppc/forum/nodebb stop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target