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  1. quicksalad

    quicksalad Member

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    Good day!

    I'm totally new on all topics here and planning to setup a fresh forum site. Planning to get a hosting vendor that can host Xenforo software. Eyeing to avail at Vultr hosting on their $10 monthly.

    Would that specs enough to run Xenforo forum?
    Any tips to? BTW, I'm planning to use Centminmod.


    Any comments and suggestions are appreciated.
     
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    Stick with DigitalOcean or Linode.
     
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    You can also add Ramnode :)
    But stay away from Vultr for now.
     
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    Thanks, @RoldanLT. I'm checking above mentioned vendor.
     
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    welcome @quicksalad to Centmin Mod Community

    Here's Vultr guide Vultr - How to install Centmin Mod on Vultr.com Guide | Centmin Mod Community but check DigitalOcean vs Vultr vs Linode Benchmark Compare | Centmin Mod Community as Vultr changed their products and much slower than before

    DO guide DigitalOcean - Centmin Mod Nginx LNMP install on CentOS 7.0 KVM VPS | Centmin Mod Community

    Threads to read, pages to bookmark and threads to watch/subscribe to get to know Centmin Mod would include:
     
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    need your advise, CentOS 7 or 6.5?
     
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    Centos 6.6 is pretty stable.
     
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    pretty quick reply @RoldanLT , Thanks. I can only choose 6.5 at DigitalOcean. Any advise how to get 6.6?
     
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    Just issue yum update -y :)
     
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    any other applications to install along with CentOS 6.5? 64 or 32bit? Like PHPMyAdmin? Thanks @RoldanLT
     
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    32 bit for 1GB of ram and below.
    64 bit for 2GB ram and up.
     
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    Thanks @RoldanLT , any idea what's the best/stable Centmin mod version to install? I'm running CentOS 6.6 32bit.
     
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    @eva2000 Thanks, I used CLI method 3. how long will it takes to completely install Centmin mod? Can I disconnect Putty while installation is ongoing?
     
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    Centmin Mod has Screen yum package installed Who uses Screen for linux ? | Centmin Mod Community - has list of tutorials for using screen at that link

    Screen allows you to start a screen that survives SSH disconnections

    so create a new screen called cminstall, then reattach the screen via -r by name = cminstall, then run CLI method
    Code:
    screen -dmS cminstall
    screen -r cminstall
    ./centmin.sh install
    if you get disconnected from SSH, you just reattach the screen
    Code:
    screen -r cminstall
    to check for list of screens available
    Code:
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    install time see FAQ item 9
    so depends on your server hardware specs and network connectivity i.e. for a 4cpu OpenVZ VPS in LA i just did test install for .08 beta03 took 869 seconds
    Code:
    Total YUM Time: 288.193796281 seconds
    Total Centmin Mod Install Time: 869.500343194 seconds
     
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    see timing for reference.

    Total YUM Time: 515.219962015 seconds
    Total Centmin Mod Install Time: 1798.157612074 seconds

    1GB RAM
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    CentOS 6.5 x32
     
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    yup speed depends on your server specs and network connectivity so looks like a slower server :)
     
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    my server is located in London, dunno why it pointed out to that location though I selected Singapore. Anything else to be configured prior to Xenforo installation?

    I'm now seeing Nginx Test Page:)
     
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    Getting Started guide + links posted above
     
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    good day guys, uname -n gives me 1 word hostname "mydroplet" instead of hostname.newdomain.com format... anything wrong I did? should I change it?