Hi everybody, I’ll chosing a VPS for a e-learning project, and I need to know if DigitalOcean is the correct place for install BigBlueButton.
Thanks in advance.
Gabriel
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×Hello,
I just came across this question. I’ve tested BigBlueButton on a Droplet with 8GB of RAM as recommended by the official documentation and it seems to be performing quite smoothly.
For anyone who comes across this question, you could take a look at this official video tutorial from BBB on how to install it on DigitalOcean:
They even go through the process of setting up BBB with Let’s Encrypt as well.
Hope that this helps!
Regards,
Bobby
This question was answered by @dragnet:
I have BBB on digital ocean now, and it works fine with the 80 gig droplet. I only use it with one or two students at a time however, so the expense is not worth the return. I am going to try it with a 20 gig disk and see how that works. But the 80 gig solution has been stable for over a year now with no problems.
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If it runs on linux (and doesn’t breach the ToS), it runs on DigitalOcean.
BBB needs a strong server, see here: http://docs.bigbluebutton.org/install/install.html#before-you-install - it specifically says “Dedicated (bare metal) hardware (not virtualization)”.
I think that you still can use DigitalOcean for that (especially if you want to try BBB at first a litte), but you should consider dedicated servers for these requirements.
On DO, you’d probably need the $80/month size.
I have BBB on digital ocean now, and it works fine with the 80 gig droplet. I only use it with one or two students at a time however, so the expense is not worth the return. I am going to try it with a 20 gig disk and see how that works. But the 80 gig solution has been stable for over a year now with no problems.