BBB on digital ocean

[Neil A]

Hello All, i have successfully managed to install BBB on a digitalocean $10 server and wanted some volunteers to help me test it's capacity. If possible. Thanks

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Neil,

> i have successfully managed to install BBB on a digitalocean $10 server

Does it meet the minimum CPU and RAM requirements recommended for BigBlueButton?

  

   http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/install/install.html#before-you-install

When I look at the configuration for Digital Ocean's $10/month server, it shows 1G of memory and 1 CPU core -- which is well below the recommended (see above link) configuration.

It may have installed, but we don't expect it would run very well.

Regards,... Fred

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Neil A <crystalwe...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello All, i have successfully managed to install BBB on a digitalocean $10 server and wanted some volunteers to help me test it's capacity. If possible. Thanks

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[HostBBB.com]

Neil,  bigbluebutton won't run reliability on a VM with 1GB ram.

http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/install/install.html#before-you-install

you need 4cores 4gb ram and preferably dedicated hardware.

regards,

Stephen

hostbbb.com

[Neil A]

Hello Fred, my use case is for a private individual who wants to tutor 1-4 students and a wordpress based site for written docs etc. The min requirements will be too expensive so i was hoping this arrangement may work and then maybe set up a teamspeak3 for audio if the latency is unbearable. 

[Fred Dixon]

Hi Neil,

Understood.  It's just your running the server with 1/4 of the minimum memory requirements we recommend -- it will likely not work in unpredictable ways, ways that will appear to be a failure of BigBlueButton to the user..

One of the reasons we have such minimums is we've seen people installing BigBlueButton on 1G or 2G servers, try it, then post to the bigbluebutton-setup mailing list saying "My server is not working correctly -- please help!!".  

Of course, when they post, they usually don't mention that they are installing it on an under powered server. After some back and forth on the mailing list, we eventually realize this and (politely) suggested the follow the minimum server configuration.

Regards,... Fred

[Neil A]

Well i am happy to report i tested with 2 users and it works great ....no latency in audio(my biggest issue in past installs). 1 webcam running and a pdf loaded on screen. Of course this is not the full capability like recording etc. But it certainly will work for my case. Thanks Fred and co.for building this. 

I'm wondering if I can remove modules like recording , screensharing? Will that help performance in non-optimal servers.

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[Fred Dixon]

Hi Neil,

> I'm wondering if I can remove modules like recording , screensharing? Will that help performance in non-optimal servers.

Hmm ... it's not deterministic which parts of BigBlueButton you will encounter problems with as it's not predictable what parts will not have enough memory or CPU at a given time.

If we start recommending parts to remove, then people will start trying to run BigBlueButton on under powered machines and we'll be back to the issues of trying to troubleshoot and solve issues servers that are insufficient for running BigBlueButton.

Our recommendation is to run BigBlueButton on a server that meets the minimum requirements. 

Regards,... Fred

[Neil A]

So just to be clear for all reading this. I am using this set up for personal use on an under powered server. If something goes wrong it's no big deal for me. For a real proper set up follow the advice given by Fred and HostBBB .

On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 10:53:37 AM UTC-4, Neil A wrote: