Storage requirements

[Adam Poniatowski]

Hi there,

I am planning on using NodeBB and was wondering how much space would around 10 million posts and 1 million users work out at? As using a VPS can cost a bit (storage-wise) and self-hosted can be relatively cheap, depending how much space the above mentioned will take.

If anybody can help me out with answering that, that would be great. I am in between NodeBB and Flarum, hence the question. I haven't gotten an answer at Flarum about this, though.

Scalability is what I want to know. Resources and performance I can figure out myself, but storage is hard to determine.

Thanks and kind regards,

[Adam Poniatowski]

Or if someone can give me the average size of 1 post (in bytes, or KB, or MB, etc) and the average size of 1 user (in bytes, or KB, or MB, etc), that would be helpful.

[Adam Poniatowski]

bump

Anybody?

[baris]

Your main post and user object in bytes

>Object.bsonsize(db.objects.find({_key:"post:54280"}));
795
> Object.bsonsize(db.objects.find({_key:"user:9534"}));
513

You can also go to /admin/advanced/database to see # of documents, average document size and storage size there.

[Adam Poniatowski]

@baris Thank you so much, that was what I was looking for. It uses less space than Flarum does. I think I will be sticking with NodeBB then.

Also, thanks for pointing out that directory, that will come in handy

[Bri]

@Adam-Poniatowski said in Storage requirements:

Also, thanks for pointing out that directory, that will come in handy

That was actually a url, just FYI

[Adam Poniatowski]

@Bri URL, directory... its all the same to me

[exodo]

@Adam-Poniatowski said in Storage requirements:

Hi there,

I am planning on using NodeBB and was wondering how much space would around 10 million posts and 1 million users work out at? As using a VPS can cost a bit (storage-wise) and self-hosted can be relatively cheap, depending how much space the above mentioned will take.

If anybody can help me out with answering that, that would be great. I am in between NodeBB and Flarum, hence the question. I haven't gotten an answer at Flarum about this, though.

Scalability is what I want to know. Resources and performance I can figure out myself, but storage is hard to determine.

Thanks and kind regards,

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MongoDB Version 3.0.12
Uptime in Seconds 1,857,623
Storage Engine mmapv1
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Storage Size 4013.56 mb
Index Size 2261.97 mb
File Size 8125.00 mb
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Virtual Memory 17860 mb
Mapped Memory 8541 mb
 REDIS
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Uptime in Days 21
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Connected Slaves 0
Blocked Clients 0
Used Memory 241.97M
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