How to Speed Up My Site On NodeBB?

[srinik]

Hello All!

Though the site runs on VPS, it still loads slowly when compared to other sites on the same server. As you might be knowing a slow loading site is a dead one.

In WordPress, there are caching plugins and customization options to enable faster loading of a website.

In a similar way, I'm looking for tips to speed up my nodeBB forum.

[PitaJ]

Have you looked at the scaling docs?

Scaling - NodeBB Documentation

[gotwf]

@PitaJ said in How to Speed Up My Site On NodeBB?:

Have you looked at the scaling docs?

Scaling - NodeBB Documentation

I can attest that this config fairly rocks. Proxy for static content access coupled with Redis for session management. Yippie yi-yo kiyah!

OTOH: Targeting KISS, I'd just rock a single mongod and scale vertically, i.e. toss more $$ at it...

Note: Were I to run a sharded/replicated mongodb backend then I'd seriously consider having mongod handle session management and cut redis. My $0.02. You get what you pay for. If'n yer' lucky & I'm having a good day....

[srinik]

@PitaJ

Thank you ...will look into it.

[cryptoethic]

Hey guys!

What about cronJobs on multiple instances? Are they executing on every instance of nodebb or only on first for example?

[cryptoethic]

Ok guys I have found the answer:

In prestart.js there is:

nconf.set('runJobs', nconf.get('isPrimary') && !nconf.get('jobsDisabled'));

And cronJobs are only run:

if (nconf.get('runJobs')) {
	require('./notifications').startJobs();
	require('./user').startJobs();
	require('./plugins').startJobs();
}

So it is well thought-out.

[baris]

@cryptoethic if you have multiple servers, set jobsDisabled: true on all servers except the first one.

[PitaJ]

@baris is it possible to have a separate instance just for running jobs?

[baris]

It can be done by using a load balancer, for example create 3 servers A, B, C. Set jobsDisabled: true on B & C and add them to the load balancer. A will run the jobs but won't get any traffic.

[julian]

@PitaJ A separate process just for running jobs would be ideal and future-ready, though we don't do that currently.