What is the VPS requirements to run nodebb

[Alankrit Choudhary]

Hey i would like to know what would be the VPS requirements to run a board with medium traffic .

How resource consuming is Nodebb ?

[a_5mith]

@Alankrit-Choudhary

Difficult to say, depends what you class as medium. The better question here is how many posts/topics/users do you have, as they'll be what takes up the space on your VPS.

I have a forum with 28,000 posts, 500 users and about 3k topics running on the 512mb $5 droplet in my signature, but it's cutting it close, I'm going to upgrade in a month or so. The $5 VPS from Digital Ocean is 512mb of RAM and a 20GB SSD. NodeBB supports Redis, which is stored in RAM, or Mongo (which is slightly slower, but stored on the hard drive)

[julian]

The main limiting factor is RAM, as we store all of the NodeBB data in memory.

Other than that, NodeBB is very light on resources... it even runs on a Raspberry Pi!

[a_5mith]

@julian Just ordered the Raspberry Pi B+... My current Pi has a credit card stopping the SD card from falling out, so Micro SD is an immediate victory in my books.

[ronalbarbaren]

Lowend VPS still run normaly :). I tested with small forum

@ronalbarbaren said:

I enabled swap, I used SmartOS from Joyent
Here is my htop result

[Alankrit Choudhary]

ah nice , i am running a 2gb ram (package) cloud on digital ocean, according to you how much could it sustain at the max without having any downtimes or issues ??