Never mind I was accidentally using the $ sign LOL. Was a long night.

@educator Hi there. Fellow Indian here. I would recommend DigitalOcean over Vultr due to a number of reasons having used both. However there is a 3rd option which is better imo and that is Linode. 2 main reasons.

Linode offers double RAM at 10$. You get 2gb RAM instead of 1gb for 10$. What I am getting from your post is that you want a 5$ plan. However it will be insufficient for even a small sized forum. Try going for the 2gb RAM option at Linode. Unless you are a registered business in India you shall have to pay 15% service tax on Digitalocean as of Jan 1 2016. Businesses dont have to pay this tax as long as they dont have a turnover of greater than 10 lacs per annum. This is because DO has officially entered the Indian Market and will need to comply with the Indian Tax authorities. This is not the case of Linode as they dont have an Indian office . This means that the DO plan at 10$ will be more than twice expensive when compared to Linode.

Rest is upto you. Feel free to ask anymore questions

Well, damn. Didnt know that.

Okay, Thanks for your phenomenal help, @pichalite.

Gonna mess around with this proxying and nginx a bit now that everything is moving forward again.

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@Ted said:

Run command to change flag responsible for using custom CSS in redis.

hset config useCustomCSS 0

@luke said:

@a_5mith Even if you need to update NodeBB?

Believe so. Taken from this blog post

I'm glad to say that I did end up figuring out the second problem, and NodeBB now comes with a "Reload" functionality in addition to the existing "Restart":

The results?

Reloads are now transparent and do not kick existing connections off. Admins used to be afraid to swap plugins because a server restart incurred downtime. Not anymore!

Occasionally, incompatible plugins break NodeBB. The new reload system will catch errors as they occur, display them to the admin, and continue serving the old assets, meaning NodeBBs will no longer be left dead in the water when a plugin breaks.

End users won't notice a reload, as connections are maintained. Restart downtimes are reduced to near-zero, as a parallel instance is started and seamlessly switched over when ready.

@julian Thanks, now it's no problem : )

@a_5mith said:

10TOSHIP

Yay! @a_5mith "donated" $10 to NodeBB 😄

@julian Any clue when this will be? And where can we see the changes?