Case Study: NodeBB achieves reliable, scalable, cost-effective hosting with DigitalOcean

How NodeBB Grows Communities on DigitalOcean

NodeBB is an open-source, Node.js-based forum platform and company based in Toronto that offers hosted, customizable community forums and enterprise support. Facing a market of users who wanted turnkey, professionally managed forums, NodeBB needed a hosting partner that provided full root access, proven uptime, flexible server options, easy administration, reliable backups, and a cost structure that could scale with their business.

NodeBB built its SaaS backend on DigitalOcean, using Droplets and the DigitalOcean API to provision servers in under a minute, match customers to appropriately sized instances, and scale vertically or horizontally as needed. The result was a reliable, cost-effective hosting offering with rapid provisioning, built-in backups, strong customer support, and the ability to support both small communities and large enterprise deployments while keeping operational costs aligned with growth.

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