@gotwf

The default 12 work fine, without problems. Only when I had it set to 36, the server had timeouts, as described above.

As for the official VPS specs:
4 vCores, 8GB DDR4.

@gotwf

Well, according to the documentation, that's NodeBB's default.

config.json - NodeBB Documentation

Documentation portal for NodeBB Forum Software

(docs.nodebb.org)

@crazycells

Greetings, thank you for the quick reply!

I discovered, that increasing the bcrypt_rounds was slowing down the server so much, that it could not save the Admin password properly on first run. So it never had an Admin to refer to. Once I removed the env var for increasing the bcrypt_rounds (defaults to 12), everything went smoothly, as it should.

Not sure if this is a bug with NodeBB not handling increased bcrypt_rounds, properly.

Same issue here. Totally stuck here.