Why I chose to use nodeBB over phpBB, Discourse, MyBB and other forums.

[Esteban Constante]

Hey @Adam-Poniatowski 256 GB SSD disk, 64 GB RAM, dedicated server on Dreamhost

[julian]

Glad to hear that you are liking NodeBB

Hope you stick around, always nice to have new regulars.

[pichalite]

@Esteban-Constante wow... that's overkill

[Esteban Constante]

@pichalite I also run a wordpress website and another node app in there... the overkill part is the wordpress site

[pichalite]

@Esteban-Constante now that makes sense.

[Esteban Constante]

@julian said in Why I chose to use nodeBB over phpBB, Discourse, MyBB and other forums.:

Glad to hear that you are liking NodeBB

Hope you stick around, always nice to have new regulars.

I will. I'm building my platform around nodeBB. Hopefully I'll be able to contribute.

[Adam Poniatowski]

@Esteban-Constante what's the load look like? I assume CPU's at around 1% and memory at maybe 10%?

[Esteban Constante]

@Adam-Poniatowski at times I've seen the CPU go up to 20% (usually is around 3-7%), memory is at 0.9%

I plan on pushing nodeBB to it's limits. Hope this can help @julian and the rest of the team.

Current stats:

[Esteban Constante]

@Adam-Poniatowski With 196 users connected at the same time, the CPU load was 20% in average, and with 30-37% spikes.

I'll keep pushing it over the limits of my current server.

It's not clustered, I have no experience with that.

[PitaJ]

@Esteban-Constante if you're not clustering, you absolutely should. It should greatly increase the responsiveness of your forum.

[Esteban Constante]

@PitaJ said in Why I chose to use nodeBB over phpBB, Discourse, MyBB and other forums.:

@Esteban-Constante if you're not clustering, you absolutely should. It should greatly increase the responsiveness of your forum.

I need to check how to do it using Apache, guide only has nginx.

[Adam Poniatowski]

@Esteban-Constante Interesting. Then theoretically it should handle about 2000 users (or more, depending what is the load when there are 0 users to use as a baseline) before peaking out at max.

Clustering is a bit of a pain to setup, but once its done and tested (and works), you don't have to worry about it anymore. Just remember to create a backup of it... it will save a lot of time

[Esteban Constante]

@Adam-Poniatowski Thanks Adam!

I'm also trying to move to a cloud hosting in order to scale efficiently.

[theo1]

I was trying to choose between Discourse and nodeBB as a way to let readers interact with my Ghost powered blog and came across your article. Thanks for writing up why you like nodeBB.

[scottalanmiller]

@theo1 said in Why I chose to use nodeBB over phpBB, Discourse, MyBB and other forums.:

I was trying to choose between Discourse and nodeBB as a way to let readers interact with my Ghost powered blog and came across your article. Thanks for writing up why you like nodeBB.

Five years on NodeBB with this large site and we've been super happy with it. Performance is great, updates are regular, support is great.

[theo1]

I was installing using the guidance available here and ran into difficulties. I'll try again soon when I have time to troubleshoot and provide feedback. It seems the installation isn't as easy as Ghost was for me.