Do you have limited or full access to your host?

NodeHam

Only six votes. I don't know why but I thought a lot of people would be interested in this stat.

julian

@NodeHam were you looking for opinions from outside of this forum? Let me share your post and see what happens

NodeHam

I was but I also wasn't too sure which forum was best to post in so sure, that could help. Thanks.

julian

@NodeHam Right, so that's the thing that's different about this whole decentralized social network thing.

There's no magical engagement algorithm that allows your content to reach other people. If nobody follows you, it doesn't get sent out to other services, so the post stays local to this NodeBB forum.

To get follows, you have to follow others, and hopefully someone with many followers (like my crag.social account) will "boost" your post

You might've noticed that every time I post about ActivityPub, either my crag.social account, or the NodeBB account on fosstodon.org shares it (sometimes both). That's because those two accounts have much higher follower counts than my NodeBB account. That difference will lessen over time

oplik0

@eeeee said in Do you have limited or full access to your host?:

I did have this conversation previously with @phenomlab, and I recall we were looking at around $40 a month upwards for a dedicated host

If you're fine with Oracle and willing to ensure there is some constant load on your server (from my experience just running Mongo+Redis with some cache for NodeBB will do fine for their usage detection), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is still waving a huge free tier carrot in the form of 4 ARM64 cores w/24GB of RAM w/200GB total disk space (you can distribute these across up to 4VMs)

Otherwise - Hetzner has a great offer. NodeBB deployments are mostly RAM-bound, so I'd personally go for ARM here too - since NodeBB doesn't really have any x86-specific dependencies (also, if you want to save a buck, or rather €0.60, you can put an IPv6-only server behind Cloudflare and get IPv4 connectivity for free ).

You really don't need dedicated unless you really have a lot of users - it may be worth it if you want to host many services (since you can run your own VMs there) or if you actually need a full CPU-worth of performance, but again - the heaviest part of NodeBB is typically the database (and maybe caches), you're almost certainly not using that much processing power to serve a forum

(As for the experience topic, I'm not sure if I can really comment when I'm still in my early 20s, below the lowest concrete number thrown here )

locationforums

I host my message board on a VPS. It helps that I work in the tech field. Even then it took a bit to get everything up and going