It's been while since I halted my launch of NodeBB website, but I am resuming my work and want to launch my site. NodeBB is the best forum app, and I haven't seen any alternative I can chose my site to use.

As of now, I am way behind... so forgive me if I might have missed any serious announcement that current versions are depending on.

I have currently 0.7.3-dev. I need to get to v1.4.3. I know NodeBB upgrade has to be incremental, but I am not sure how I will do in my case. I started with moving from origin/0.7.x thinking it would get me to the higher version in that branch (is it even correct?) Then...

My first obstacle was to know the requirements for the current NodeBB . Obviously not having kept up with the forum discussion is playing its part. If someone can point to how to check that, I will appreciate.
After turning off my website (./nodebb stop) I tried to upgrade following instructions on the documentation site. Then the first thing I noticed in the error message was that I my Nodejs was very old. So, I updated NPM to v4.2.0 and Nodejs to 7.4.0. Was this an appropriate move for NodeBB v1.4.3, by the way?
Then when I retried to upgrade, I got errors that I couldn't understand:

$ ./nodebb upgrade
1. Bringing base dependencies up to date... 
Error: Command failed: /usr/bin/env npm i --production
npm ERR! fetch failed https://registrytwo.npmjs.com/concat-map/-/concat-map-0.0.1.tgz
npm WARN retry will retry, error on last attempt: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 54.68.99.191:443
npm ERR! fetch failed https://registrytwo.npmjs.com/concat-map/-/concat-map-0.0.1.tgz
npm WARN retry will retry, error on last attempt: Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 54.68.99.191:443
npm ERR! fetch failed https://registrytwo.npmjs.com/concat-map/-/concat-map-0.0.1.tgz
npm ERR! Linux 3.13.0-57-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "i" "--production"
npm ERR! node v7.4.0
npm ERR! npm  v4.0.5
npm ERR! code ECONNREFUSED
npm ERR! errno ECONNREFUSED
npm ERR! syscall connect

npm ERR! Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 54.68.99.191:443
npm ERR!     at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1022:11)
npm ERR!     at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1045:20)
npm ERR!     at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1090:14)
npm ERR!  { Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 54.68.99.191:443
npm ERR!     at Object.exports._errnoException (util.js:1022:11)
npm ERR!     at exports._exceptionWithHostPort (util.js:1045:20)
npm ERR!     at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1090:14)
npm ERR!   code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
npm ERR!   errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'connect',
npm ERR!   address: '54.68.99.191',
npm ERR!   port: 443 }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the
npm ERR! 'proxy' config is set properly.  See: 'npm help config'

Can anyone help with understanding what went wrong? Currently, I can't even restart my website.

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