$ 5 per month, 768 MB RAM cheap hosting for NodeBB

[meetdilip]

Just wondering whether plans from Vultr are good enough

Vultr 768 MB, 15 GB SSD , $ 5 per month

Planning to get this now. Please suggest.

[A Former User]

Less storage space, but more RAM than the comparable DO droplet rates.
I'm a fan of DO's customer support though, it would be hard for me to transfer.

[meetdilip]

Budget constraints. Moreover, I won't be needing much space. If required can always shift..

[A Former User]

You can run NBB perfectly fine for quite some time on DO's starter plan ($5 as well), so you should have no issue with Vultr. I'm unsure of anyone who has done business with them before however.

Have you tried DigitalOcean though? You get $10 credit, so essentially 2 months free, where with Vultr you would only get one. If you haven't tried DO, I'd recommend it - not because I promote them in my signature - but because they have the best support I've ever interacted with, and some fantastic documentation available on their website that has come in handy several times.

[meetdilip]

I was told it is better go for 512 MB + VPS. Can you please check and confirm that Vultr can run NodeBB. May be I can try them and more people can make use of their service.

[A Former User]

@meetdilip, they're both a VPS provider. When it comes to memory, more is better -- but if you're not going to use it, there's no point in having it not much of a point in having it.
I'll look into Vultr on my own and check out their service for a side project. I'm not sure how familiar you are with the company though, as I saw you posted a referral link. If you've done any business with them, I'd love to hear about your experiences.

[meetdilip]

I consulted a few pros in hosting. They all had decent opinion about the reputation of Vultr. The reason I started a thread here is that I wanted to know whether NodeBB will run on it or not.

[frissdiegurke]

Choose from our library of CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows, FreeBSD templates or upload your own using our Custom ISO feature!

All virtual machines come with full "root" access and a dedicated IP address.

Conclusion: It's able to run node.js => It's able to host NodeBB

[meetdilip]

@frissdiegurke said:

Choose from our library of CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows, FreeBSD templates or upload your own using our Custom ISO feature!

All virtual machines come with full "root" access and a dedicated IP address.

Conclusion: It's able to run node.js => It's able to host NodeBB

Thank you @frissdiegurke

[meetdilip]

@Technowix said:

So overpriced in your country o.o'''' you can get dedicated server for this price on http://kimsufi.com
Edit : or some easy and powerfull vps on ovh !

Tell me more about it please...

[meetdilip]

Currently I paid $ 5 and got $ 5 credit and has Vultr VPS payment done. Will proceed setting up VPS.

[meetdilip]

@Technowix said:

And if you think "too cheap, there is a problem" is simply beacause there is a "server crisis" in France x'P so "fight of price"

Nope. Nothing like that. I am just giving this a try. I checked Kimsufi and it has $ 20 per month. I am doing a non profit project and in a weak currency. So $ 5 is the maximum I can go at this moment.

[meetdilip]

Setting up. Wish me luck

[meetdilip]

Installed Debain 7 Wheezy.

[frissdiegurke]

don't forget to use nginx >= 1.3.13 (I don't know how far they did update this in debian repositories)

[meetdilip]

Thanks @frissdiegurke

Please check this guide : https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/installing/os/debian.html

I was planning to use this one.

[frissdiegurke]

The docs seem to be off at the moment but I'm sure they mention the nginx version

And in my opinion stay with debian rather than ubuntu just to make sure you don't think all of us recommend ubuntu for your use-case... Arch Linux would be awesome btw

[meetdilip]

@frissdiegurke , @Technowix ,@a_5mith

I am inside home/nodebb and I have this command to install Nodebb. Is this correct ?

git clone -b v0.5.x https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB.git nodebb

if not, which one to use ?

[frissdiegurke]

This is correct to use the v0.5.x branch of NodeBB (I think this is your intention ;)).
It'll download the NodeBB data which is the first step of installing NodeBB
EDIT: you can replace the nodebb at the end of your command with ./ because you're already inside the nodebb directory (as long as it's empty)

[meetdilip]

Thanks @frissdiegurke