@julian

Thanks. Figured some such, wh/is why I did not want to open bug report prior to checking in

P.S.; Prior to github and markdown becoming defacto I always preferred asciidoc for such duties. Still do. Much richer options for when you need/want them but still dead simple to use when you don't. Also, actually standardized, as contrasted w/the markdown flavor fest. But hey, github made markdown the golden boy for modern devs that never used else. Don't blame 'em cuz devs wanna code not invest time learning different markup 'time savers'. So whaddya gonna do, eh?

@Jenkler

Pondered this one briefly myself when I could not use SmartOS due to mongodb "linuxization". Decided not to risk playing guinea pig and went with CentOS (even though I loathe systemd). fwiw, CentOS is working well and community advocate @scottalanmiller has a good how-to for those of us who've been away from Linux for a while.

Maybe give this a good read, do your own testing and be prepared to do some troubleshooting during updates and such.

musl libc - Functional differences from glibc

tl;dr--

When in doubt, stick w/what the devs use. In these times of competing "proprietarization of linux" trends, goes a long ways towards mitigating potential "works on my machine" issues.

Have fun-- o/

@julian

Excellent and very well composed, Julian. I have been out of managing community spaces for a while and took a pass on social engineering, errr.. I mean networking, sites in general. Hence a bit out of the modern loop, so to speak. Your blog post was timely - elaborates and illuminates a related discussion I was having on irc just last night (private chan, not nodebb).

Good stuff, particularly w.r.t. the ephemeral. Another fall out I am noticing that I ascribe to sites like NitWit and Facebark is that folks no longer seem capable and/or willing to even post up actual sentences, much less string them together into coherent thoughts. Serial "post whoring" seems to be more the order of the day. I don't think these people realize such, but has actual coherent conversation and discussion become a lost "art", displaced by what essentially amount to click bait posts?

This forum obviously attracts a more technical audience so, no, I am not dissing anybody here.

Deserves a Hooray!

Loathe to necro bump this but... was curious if this might be a bug that needed reporting? Or one of those pebkac deals?

P.S.; Is that image upload icon in the composer toolbar new? Kind of resembles a cloud or hamburger on my version.

Heh, evidently I stand corrected about DO and NodeBB. Used DO stuff early on (but not for NodeBB). They then became very popular and I saw significant increases in cpu usage without any commensurate increases in load. Boosted a couple droplets up a notch. Didn't do much. Spun up a virgin node and saw cpu loads into 2.x to low 3.x's just idling on my ssh connection. I bailed to a different provider and have not checked in with them in years. Maybe a scale/infrastructure growing too fast issue?

In any case, good that you can get it sorted for minimal costs.

@crazycells

Although I cannot imaging running NodeBB on one of their $5/mo. rigs Maybe for ten users?

Awesome.

Thanks bunches for this.

@julian said in Free hosting for you:

If something is too good to be true...

+1

Although, maybe, just maybe... some folks actually are endeavoring to be generous and trying to give back. Unless I knew them personally, however, I would be skeptical.

The Fourth Law of Ecology: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

@Jose-Antonio

Did you restart nodebb afterwards??

Sure:

![Silly Example Animated Gif](https://i1.wp.com/www.runkevinrun.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Missed-It-By-That-Much-GIF.gif)

Not sure about the rights to that, feel free to delete if problem.

Settings are at default to allow jpg, png, and bmp.

thx--o/