Please suggest good way to setup

[Aditya Bhardwaj229]

I want to host a nodebb forum. Also would like to have a local installation to tinker with the codebase.

• hosting / server

What is a good way to host?

Intending to go with postgres. Is there and cons (and pros?) compared to mongo?

Should I go for dockerized / serverless hosting or the old style VM approach? How is the support for serverless installation?

• local setup

Again thinking to go with postgres, is there any (de)merit compared to mongo?

Any good practices to consider for local development? I was suggested podman to use for local development. Is it worth using?

[qqqqqqq]

according to their documentation nodebb only supports mongodb or redis.

nodebb is easy enough without docker, just need nodejs and the db, and use the cli ./nodebb start ./nodebb stop etc.

i use a oneshot systemd service to start it at boot:

[Unit]
Description=mpp.community nodebb
After=mongod.service

[Service]
User=mppc
Group=mppc
WorkingDirectory=/srv/mppc/forum/
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/srv/mppc/forum/nodebb start
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStop=/srv/mppc/forum/nodebb stop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target