Host Nodebb Free

[luke]

Honestly you're just asking for trouble if you go with a free host if you're serious about starting a forum. I guarantee you each one of those hosts you mentioned overcrowds their free servers to the point where performance is nonexistent.

The only reason I can fathom somebody trying to use of those hosts is for some weird thing that they can't do in a localhost environment and don't want to run on their production environment, but honestly I'd rather pay a few cents to spin up a VPS for a couple hours to do that than put up with a free option.

[a_5mith]

@luke I'm inclined to agree with this. Even if you're just testing out and want a linux VPS for testing, sites charge like $0.007 an hour. So for $5 you get 714 hours of testing (assuming you destroy the droplet when you're done, that could last you a year or two.)

[psychobunny]

As above, not a great idea if you want to start a serious forum. But I imagine, good for testing and development. Free is good

Please feel free to contribute to our documentation as found

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EDIT: If you're interested in writing a step-by-step guide for installing NodeBB on the aforementioned hosts, please do

[Scuzz]

Those $5 digital ocean droplets are pretty cheap too!

[unixfox]

Thanks for your reply.
I use VPS free for host my nodebb forum because i don't want a big forum and my website isn't popular.
I have launch nodebb on VPS.me with Debian and a free DB mongo. Here you are : http://forum.unixfox.com !
Why I use a VPS free ? Because I am a student and i can't buy online.

@psychobunny said :

EDIT: If you're interested in writing a step-by-step guide for installing NodeBB on the aforementioned hosts, please do

Why not :).

[hieudang]

OpenShift is good choice,no need cc. Or you can use free tier of AWS Amazon (need cc be ware your billing)

[unixfox]

WOW !
I managed to install Nodebb on OpenShift !

[julian]

Nice! We'd love a guide on how to do that,

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[unixfox]

@julian (Thanks ! But how to create a guide on the documentation?)
Oops sorry, i haven't read your message, you have edited it.

[luke]

Fantastic, looks like I've got to spin up an Ubuntu VM on my computer to run those local git commands.

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I'm a Windows plebian, is there any way to run those without using Linux?

[hieudang]

@luke said:

Fantastic, looks like I've got to spin up an Ubuntu VM on my computer to run those local git commands.

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I'm a Windows plebian, is there any way to run those without using Linux?

Try

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But i still recommander you use Linux

Edit : Bitnami not yet complete, you have to wait

[psychobunny]

@luke said:

I'm a Windows plebian, is there any way to run those without using Linux?

Yeah, https://www.openshift.com/get-started follow the windows instructions

[somevelda]

I've played around briefly with the Node.js setup on Nitrious.io and it's free to use for one box. It's kind of impressive. I haven't used NodeBB with it but I guess it shouldn't be too hard to set it up on there and play around with it due to the built-in text-editor and terminal. The priced plans are kind of price-y though.

[unixfox]

@velderia i might try that ^^

[unixfox]

@velderia I have managed : http://nodebb-129968.euw1.nitrousbox.com:4567
Details of the installation :

• RAM : 640 MB
• Region host : Europe
• Storage : 1000 MB

[unixfox]

@psychobunny Added Nitrous.IO :

Update guide openshift with redis and added nitrous.io by unixfox · Pull Request #1836 · NodeBB/NodeBB

MongoDB is so slow, redis is better !

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[UnknownGeek]

Does anyone know if the openshift installation is set up for scaling applications? I'm in the process of creating a nodebb forum for a potentially larger site with heavy traffic. I'd want to make sure that the app can scale horizontally.

[Netto Hikari]

I'm still offering free NodeBB hosting right here! Drawback: No SSH access right now, so this might only be suited for absolute beginners.

[UnknownGeek]

Scrap that, anyone know if the current docs really describe how to install nodebb on openshift? I ran through it and I was never asked to set up admin info, and even when I registered and logged in the /admin route was unavailable. When I logged out I got stuck because the /login route was also blank. Seems a little off.

Also running through this, seems like the installation process is perfectly suited to becoming a cartridge, if all that's missing from the install really are a couple of environment variables for a configuration file.

[a_5mith]

UnknownGeek

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said:

Also running through this, seems like the installation process is perfectly suited to becoming a cartridge, if all that's missing from the install really are a couple of environment variables for a configuration file.

For those of us that aren't as familiar with technobabble, what's a cartridge when it's not in a Lexmark Printer?

Is there a specific reason it needs to be run on openshift? Or is it one of those personal preference things?