@ron_jeremy said:

As for the hosting, if you're hellbent on hosting it yourself, you're going to want to at least proxy the node.js stuff via Apache or nginx or some other reverse proxy webserver, but that still won't stop it from being easily DoS'ed .....

Here is your red flag. Everyone who doesn't know web development and design in the real world focuses on being DoS attacked. Why? Because it is the cool, scary word that they heard on TV. Wake up to the real world, only a handful of massive websites or really aggravating groups get DoS'd in the real world. This isn't a threat for normal people and normal websites. This is a completely naive thing to be concerned about for a forum of this nature. I run the tech site of the busiest NodeBB forum that we know of (tens of thousands of posts per thread, millions of views on a single thread, nearly a thousand daily posts, over 10K views an hour) and these concerns are quite simply, silly.

This is what a little kid trying to talk about IT sounds like. In the real world, being DoS attacked is not something that happens every day. That takes time and energy and requires someone with a goal. And if you want to protect against it, which I've needed to do, the platform that you run on isn't where that tooling is going to be.

I'd stop talking to this guy.

A little tooting of our own horn, but today is the fifth anniversary of the MangoLassi IT Pro Community which started in 2014 running on NodeBB since day one. Still growing after five years and a great partnership with NodeBB that has done so much to make it all possible for us.

@kinderjaje said:

@a_5mith "we charge $95 USD per hour" that is a quote from Julian, so freelancer i look cant cost that bro. With due respect for everyone works on nodebb and their own values, but for me that is sick price.

That's actually crazy low and I would recommend to the NodeBB guys that they reconsider working for anything so low. They are a unique resource and can do custom work at a rate and efficiency that no one else can touch. No one. I totally understand that you can't afford them, that's not cheap to a home user. But this is Node.js development we are talking about. At $95/hour these guys are literally doing work as a favor.

I work for a consulting firm and if you wanted us to look at this we'd be 50%-100% higher and we don't have the kinds of Node.js and certainly not the NodeBB skills that they have. That's just basic market price. Anyone capable of doing this work is going to be very expensive. Even if you live in a low cost area, Node.js skills are universal so people doing that work there can get paid to work in NYC, London or Toronto remotely or relocated to where the work is.

You can find cheaper people out there, sure. But you can't find better ROI or TCO, I guarantee it.

Up to date on all of ours and working well.

Is this the longest one? We have been waiting to hit the landmark 10K posts. And we just did it minutes ago. Not a very meaningful thread, but epic in length and views (but not the most viewed every, second as far as we know.)

10,000 posts in a single thread

Feel free to pop in and contribute? ML is a technical community so perfect place for NodeBB admins to hang out too! And a great place to push the performance limits of NodeBB.

@kenygamer said in Run two nodebb ionsame server:

@pichalite said in Run two nodebb ionsame server:

@kenygamer you don't know how to run 2 installs of NodeBB on the same server and you are offering installation and support for others for a fee?

Stop scamming people.

Ssshhhh, I'm not hosting two NodeBB's on the same server, that's stupid
I offer a VPS for every installation, i dont host two on the same

Stupid? That's very, very smart. Why would you split up the applications?

@kenygamer said in Run two nodebb ionsame server:

@AOKP Because i dont (yet) have money to afford a big vps

So.... what does that mean for your customers? It only takes a $5 VPS to have many NodeBB instances. Is it that your customers total revenue is under $5? I'm confused. You would have to be spending way too much money to have one VPS per instance, yet you say your are too poor. Those two things don't go together.

MangoLassi is still going strong, after 4.5 years on NodeBB; and they just announced their third annual conference for May. And they just hit a new volume of monthly traffic...

Just saying hey, as we've not been on here a lot for a while, as things have been running so smoothly.

We are nearing our fifth anniversary on NodeBB and we still constantly get compliments that the site is so screaming fast and responsive and makes interacting a pleasure. It's been a great journey so far and we just keep growing.

From a performance perspective, NodeBB is mind blowing. Everyone coming to our forum is always commenting on how screaming fast it is.

I don't believe that there is one. I think that you'd need to write your own to have this functionality.

@PitaJ said in Any tips for installing NodeBB on AWS Lightsail?:

As long as Lightsail doesn't limit the capabilities of their VPS, I don't see why it would be any different from a normal install on Ubuntu.

yeah, it's identical. LightSail ends up being exactly like a DO or Vultr.

@Varun-Ganesh-D said in Any tips for installing NodeBB on AWS Lightsail?:

@jaycincotta I was tried on Aws ec2 one year free tire
I don't trust to use production level on ec2 free tire.
I had 50$ coupon for 10 months and redeemed that on Digital Ocean.
Now its 2nd month.. so using it. No specific reason to move to digital Ocean.
For trail purpose i Installed on EC2, that's all

DO is quite good. We've found Vultr to be even better. Linode has been great, as well.

@Varun-Ganesh-D said in Any tips for installing NodeBB on AWS Lightsail?:

@jaycincotta for image purpose I'm using imgur.
I feel thats pretty easy and good. I think we can reduce storage memory if we use imgur for images.

Same here. Imgur has worked well for many years (almost seven for us!)

@jaycincotta said in Any tips for installing NodeBB on AWS Lightsail?:

I got a little worried by the sparse number of Google results when searching for NodeDB on Lightsail.

There are lots of reasons for that. One being that LightSail itself is extremely unpopular (not bad, just not popular.) And installations should not be product specific in that way, so people using it should be documenting by operating system, not by host provider. So any real documentation will be about Ubuntu not LightSail. That LightSail provides Ubuntu is neither here nor there.

I recommend CentOS 8. And I have a guide to make it as easy as can be.

Jul 23  /  IT Discussion

Deploying NodeBB 1.14 on CentOS 8 with MongoDB 4.2

NodeBB is a powerful, open source package for building online communities and forums. We usually recommend running it on CentOS 8, primarily because of the need for MongoDB deployment support. The current NodeBB release is 1.14. By default, NodeBB uses th...

@physix said in Trouble installing NodeBB:

I don't have access to the OS, however I have access to the FTP information and
the GoDaddy details.

Typically any platform like that is an extremely limited PHP-only web server. NodeBB is neither PHP nor does it run on a web server. So beyond lacking the right languages, access, tooling, etc. it's fundamentally the wrong conceptual approach. It's not a CGI script to be installed on top of a web server, and that's what essentially all of those services are.

I recommend a vendor like Vultr and CentOS 8. Works great.

@sharonyue said in Page views not counted corrected:

Thank you guys!!

@scottalanmiller Do you also change if (req.uid >= 0) { ?

I'm not sure why, but mine is already that. So it's been that way a long, long time. So yes.

@sharonyue said in Page views not counted corrected:

@baris Thank you I will try that.

Keep in mind every guest will get a session object as well so it will increase the size of the session store.

I have no idea about this. If suddenly I have 3000 guests viewing my thread in 10 mins. Is it harmful to my site?

You would have that already. I've got 4000+ most days, and the site doesn't break a sweat. We could handle 10x that, no problem.

@sharonyue said in Page views not counted corrected:

@baris Thank you I will try that.

Keep in mind every guest will get a session object as well so it will increase the size of the session store.

I have no idea about this. If suddenly I have 3000 guests viewing my thread in 10 mins. Is it harmful to my site?

People viewing your website is not harmful to it. That's it's purpose, to be viewed... presumably as much as possible.

NodeBB can be great for this, it just might take some custom coding or something depending on what you are working with.