New to NodeBB
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I'm new to the whole NodeBB thing. Have been using PHP based forums for awhile now most recently xenForo and I am really loving this concept in forums. I finally after many many tries managed to get NodeBB installed on a small $5 Linode VPS and I am loving it. Had to use a version of Linux I am not familiar with (not that I am familiar with any version of Linux). I am used to using CentOS but to get it to work I had to use Ubuntu which the guide really really helped with just a few issues on my end. Anyways keep up the awesome work and maybe I'll actually start a forum using this software as it seems really awesome.
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@Ernest-L.-Defoe said in New to NodeBB:
I'm new to the whole NodeBB thing. Have been using PHP based forums for awhile now most recently xenForo and I am really loving this concept in forums. I finally after many many tries managed to get NodeBB installed on a small $5 Linode VPS and I am loving it. Had to use a version of Linux I am not familiar with (not that I am familiar with any version of Linux). I am used to using CentOS but to get it to work I had to use Ubuntu which the guide really really helped with just a few issues on my end. Anyways keep up the awesome work and maybe I'll actually start a forum using this software as it seems really awesome.
Welcome
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Thanks. Good to be hear. I am loving this software more and more. Installing plugins is so much easier than other forum scripts. It's such a breeze.
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@Ernest-L.-Defoe said in New to NodeBB:
Thanks. Good to be hear. I am loving this software more and more. Installing plugins is so much easier than other forum scripts. It's such a breeze.
I know right? I'm only 15 and I can handle my forum fine,
I hope you enjoy NodeBB as much as I do. Anyways, I must go finish my homework, bye! -
@ChaosYamYT Have fun with the homework. Glad my days of doing that are over. So far I am enjoying using NodeBB though.
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@Ernest-L.-Defoe lol, I definitely will
(thank u for the upvotes, this 300 second wait time is truly driving me crazy) -
@Ernest-L.-Defoe if you want to switch to CentOS before you get too far along, I wrote this guide last fall based on NodeBB1.4 with Mongo.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/11695/installing-nodebb-with-mongo-on-centos-7
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@JaredBusch Thank you for the info above but I actually found a host that has a script written and I can install NodeBB with one click and entering 3 pieces of information. Plus I was having issues getting my site to work with a domain name instead of an IP Address. With my new host that wasn't an issue. While the site still runs on a custom Ubuntu image I am ok with that as the VPS I am on is fully managed if something goes wrong a quick ticket into tech support fixes the issue.
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I moved from Digitalocean to Vultr and I like Vultr a lot more. Better interface and more for the money
They even have Windows if you like that 
I use CoreOS and i think that dont have support for that, but I can be wrong on that point...
NodeBB beat the shit out of all PHP-based forums if you ask me!!!
