NodeBB requirements

[yusf]

I’m looking at a project of migrating a phpBB community over to NodeBB. I wonder what it’d take resource-wise.

The usage stats of the current system is vague so the only two data points I have are:

• 300 topic views per minute
• 1000 concurrent users

Keep in mind that phpBB and NodeBB works quite differently, which is why I need assistance in comparing for getting a scope of the future spec needed.

Looking at the 4488 users (though with a huge amount of spam accounts) that this forum has I’m interested in hearing from @girish and @nebulon as well as anyone else having experience with larger NodeBB instances.

[nebulon]

Not sure if we have a lot of data points about the resource requirements, however this instance of NodeBB has a memorylimit set from Cloudron side at 1640MB (ram+swap). This high water mark is mostly for forum restarts/rebuilds when plugins update. The regular amount of used ram is between 400MB and 500MB.
Not sure if this helps much though

[yusf]

Thank you for that. May I ask you to check for some average (longest-term) usage statistics from the admin dashboard as well?

[girish]

I haven't seen page stats before myself but wow we have 0.5 million hits last 30 days

[yusf]

Thanks, I believe I can use those numbers.

[vjvanjungg]

thank you guys, very helpful