Estimated Costs?
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I have looked at NodeBB after seeing a few websites using this. Very clean & simple, yet modern.
I currently run a wordpress website using bbpress, and I can't wait to uninstall it, it's not fantastic to say the least.
I have no experience in Node.JS and wouldn't know where to start with installing quite honestly, I am just wondering what the expected costs are to get a Freelancer/Dev to create the Forum software for my site? Any help would be appreciated as my website isn't getting any traffic yet, and I want to keep costs to a minimum in case it never does become a success.
I've trawled the Forum and have a few notes:
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I don't have a VPS, though have looked at digital ocean, from one of many posts i have read recommending it, but I am in contract with Siteground so can't get the VPS for 7 months.
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I have contacted the sales team at nodebb, but I feel like their quotes may be out of my price range
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I'm not sure if the below helps but its my server information from my Siteground GrowBig Account.
I have read about SSH on this forum and it says I have full access to that ?
Simultaneous Server Processes: 20
Simultaneous Connections from Single IP: 15
CPU Seconds / Program and Script Executions: 2000/hour, 20000/day, 600000/month
Average Process Execution Time per Day: 2 seconds
Shared Service CPU Usage: No more than 20% for a period longer than 10 seconds
Server Memory per Process: 768 MB
Inodes: 300,000
Minimum Cron Job Interval: 30minsAny Help would be fantastic, If anything I would like to know a rough estimation of costs, so I don't get shafted by a Freelancer if i choose that route.
Thanks
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If you do have SSH access and are able to install all the dependencies required, I think what you have is enough for a small forum for starters. Definitely should consider getting your own vps when you're able to though
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I've got about 100k pageviews a month (according to NodeBB stats) with a pretty small number of users (apparently they are really active though). My $10 DigitalOcean server is probably more than enough for that. I'd imagine I could go down to the $5 one if needed.
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Definitely you're overprovisioned, but that is not a bad thing! It is good to have excess resources
Sometimes on $5 digitalocean servers, things can get cramped and the OOM killer might get invoked and kill off a process like nodebb, or the database
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@teh_g said in Estimated Costs?:
I've got about 100k pageviews a month (according to NodeBB stats) with a pretty small number of users (apparently they are really active though). My $10 DigitalOcean server is probably more than enough for that. I'd imagine I could go down to the $5 one if needed.
You could go to $5 on Vultr for sure. Anything you can do on DO, you can do for half that price on Vultr or Linode.
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@julian I've had a server under light load on a $5 Digital Ocean for over a year without a crash. The trick seems to be large amounts of swap.
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@jongarrison Same here, although occasionally some get their processes killed. I honestly don't know why because they're all built the same
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Hey there,
Not sure if you've found your solution as of yet, but if you haven't I would almost certainly take a look at the wonderful VPSdime. I'm not endorsed by them in any way, but I can never praise their service enough. Their prices are actually really, really good as well.
Their standard packages offer you 6GB of RAM for every $7 you spend. ($7 for 6GB, $14 for 12GB, etc.)
Full SSH as standard.
Let's say you use the 12GB package, you're looking at $168/year. That's pretty good.
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@Wesleigh-Walker thanks for the tip! The link you provided is actually supposed to be a .com
Is vpsdime.com pretty stable? I don't know how they're doing it considering DO is $10 for 1GB and Linode is $5 for 1GB
