That makes no sense š¤ The search plugin has nothing to do with themes or skins. Do you have any errors in your logs after you disable the plugin and restart the forum? What about when you run ./nodebb build and restart is everything working after that?
Iām a student and I want to create a NodeBB
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Iām a student and I want to run a forum for me and my friends. But I canāt because I have no money. Any suggestions?
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@Koshy246 said in Iām a student and I want to create a NodeBB:
Iām a student and I want to run a forum for me and my friends. But I canāt because I have no money. Any suggestions?
it is actually free if you host it yourself. you just need a domain name and hosting server...
You can check this topic as well:
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@crazycells yes itās the server that Im looking for
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@Koshy246 said in Iām a student and I want to create a NodeBB:
@crazycells yes itās the server that Im looking for
maybe everyone in your group can chip in several bucks ?
we use digitalocean and pay $10 monthly for the server, but there is $5 monthly option as well. -
None of my friends can either
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@Koshy246 unfortunately, I do not know any free service. maybe others can direct you...
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Ok thx
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If you're a student you can sign up for the developer pack on GitHub, I think... That comes with some free goodies like hosting on Digital Ocean
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I happen to have experience in this area.
My forum is hosted at aliyunļ¼it's nicely and Cost-effective.
Less than ļæ„300/year. -
In what part of the world are you looking for a server
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Although I cannot imaging running NodeBB on one of their $5/mo. rigs Maybe for ten users?
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The $5 droplets on DigitalOcean are more than capable of running a NodeBB. It can probably handle 50+ concurrent users with some minor tweaking, though don't take my word for it
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@gotwf Unfortunately, I do not have enough technical knowledge to judge
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@julian said in Iām a student and I want to create a NodeBB:
The $5 droplets on DigitalOcean are more than capable of running a NodeBB. It can probably handle 50+ concurrent users with some minor tweaking, though don't take my word for it
Hi @julian , I would like to ask a follow up question here... any suggestion from you would be very helpful...
a few times a year -especially early May- we have far more than usual visit to our website (pls check the pic below), last year we had only 5 minutes long lost connection to the forum (the pages were showing "not found" error but forum wasn't down), but it was acceptable for us since it lasted only 5 minutes, however this year -since our forum is getting larger- we had two days long problem to access the forum, forum was there (never down) but we kept having "not found - you do not have permission to access this page" error when we click a link of a page in the forum, so we had to renew pages one or two times to view a page in the forum. What would be the best way to prevent this next years? Is there a temporary precaution we can take for a month only? Because current settings are enough for our normal traffic.
High traffic for us is that:
25.000+ unique visitor and 200.000+ total page view
We use Digital Ocean:
2 GB Memory / 50 GB Disk / NYC1 - Ubuntu NodeJS 8.10.0 on 18.04 -
@gotwf said in Iām a student and I want to create a NodeBB:
Although I cannot imaging running NodeBB on one of their $5/mo. rigs Maybe for ten users?
Currently with 20+ users it seems to work fine, but there are some slowdowns I've been seeing recently.
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@crazycells Newer node.js version would probably help. Other than that, are you running NodeBB on both ports? Have you looked at https://docs.nodebb.org/configuring/scaling/ ?
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@julian said in Iām a student and I want to create a NodeBB:
@crazycells Newer node.js version would probably help. Other than that, are you running NodeBB on both ports? Have you looked at https://docs.nodebb.org/configuring/scaling/ ?
Thanks, these should help; I will forward this to our technical team.
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Heh, evidently I stand corrected about DO and NodeBB. Used DO stuff early on (but not for NodeBB). They then became very popular and I saw significant increases in cpu usage without any commensurate increases in load. Boosted a couple droplets up a notch. Didn't do much. Spun up a virgin node and saw cpu loads into 2.x to low 3.x's just idling on my ssh connection. I bailed to a different provider and have not checked in with them in years. Maybe a scale/infrastructure growing too fast issue?
In any case, good that you can get it sorted for minimal costs.
