Thanks @julian

I managed to solve this. For brand new users who aren't too familiar with web servers and backend (like me) it was fairly easy after some research. Hopefully this will save time for anyone in the future looking to do the same thing.

How to redirect subdomain to NodeBB IP w/ Nginx

This assumes that you have already added an A Record that points your subdomain to the NodeBB IP. This is fairly easy to use from your hosting provider.

There are many tutorials out there and they were helpful but, to me it felt there was plenty of information scattered all over.

This is what I did to get my subdomain to redirect to my NodeBB installation on DigitalOcean.

/* Update your package list to get the latest versions and Install Nginx*/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nginx

/* Nginx is located in /etc/nginx by default */

cd /etc/nginx

/* You want to go to your list of available sites here */
cd sites-available 

/* Create a copy of the default config and name it to your sites name */
cp default <your website name>

/* Add configuration files for your website  */
nano <your website name>

/* Copy and paste config found here: https://docs.nodebb.org/en/latest/configuring/proxies/nginx.html 
 into the server section of the code. 
 NodeBB runs on port <your IP here>:4567 by default  */

/* Enable it */
cd sites-enabled
ln -s ../sites-available/<your website name>

/* Restart nginx */
sudo service nginx restart

Go to your subdomain and make sure it works. Also be sure to change your config.json to your new url.

Hopefully this helps some beginners out there!

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I want to create a snapshot of my droplet on digital ocean but, in order to do that I have to power off my droplet.

At first, I thought redis saved my dump.rdb file automatically but, I turned it off without doing anything in the redis command line.

This caused me to lose some of my settings that I had previously installed and had to re-work it all again.

Do I just run bgsave in redis-cli and then turn off the droplet to create my snapshot?

Don't want to risk losing all of my data again before powering it off.

I am using an Ubuntu server on the $5 tier offered by D.O.

@codejet User registration should be opened. The registration type is set to normal, so pretty sure it's not invite only at this point
World championships are coming soon, hope to attract some users then too!

Thanks @baris that did the trick

@julian I think I managed to solve this problem, not 100% though

I changed the permission to 755 for my working root directory and the dump.rdb permissions to 644. I also changed the ownership of my working root directory to redis as well.

Upon running redis-cli bgsave and then checking the redis-server.log I am greeted with this:

933:M 10 Jul 12:52:17.908 * Background saving started by pid 20754
20754:C 10 Jul 12:52:17.917 * DB saved on disk
20754:C 10 Jul 12:52:17.918 * RDB: 0 MB of memory used by copy-on-write
933:M 10 Jul 12:52:17.946 * Background saving terminated with success

It says 0MB of memory used by copy-on-write? Does this mean it saved?