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

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.

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@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

meetdilip

Successfully installed. Now need to configure the domain.Where do I have to change the setting in Domain CP ?

meetdilip

Got it. Changed the A record.

luke

I've run NodeBB on both DigitalOcean and Vultr, and Vultr is definitely faster.

meetdilip

True @luke . It is quite fast.