Hi Patryk,

Is there any recommended hosting from your side. Please advice me the recommended hosting platform for GrandNode. Thanks

Hi Samson,

Any suggestions from our side may be treated as promo or something, so I don't want to suggest anything.

However, if you want to know which providers we are using, I can tell you. Mostly, we choose clouds from Microsoft Azure or Digital Ocean in the international projects. In the case of national projects, which we make for our domestic customers, we choose our domestic provider, to get better connection quality. Digital Ocean has better prices and it's great for beginner users. You can also find the One Click app for GrandNode. So you choose the machine, which you want to buy and select GrandNode image, you will get already uploaded GrandNode ready to install. And there is also one thing, if you create an account from our referral link, you will get free credits for 30 days. We don't have any money from it, if you will continue the subscription, we will just get free credits also for our test machines. If you want you can create account here.
You can use the cheapest machine for 5$ per month, however I would recommend the 2CPU/2GB Ram machine for 15$/mo for better experience.

Thanks for the update... I would start with 5$ plan as of now.  When moving to live , i would upgrade the machine to the recommended one.
If I am going with One Click app for GrandNode, how will i upload the design changes that i have made with my application? I hope re-uploading my modified application dll's will bring all the changes to the hosted application.

Just enable the FTP connection or send files via SSH. Please note that we don't recommend the source code modification. It's much better to create plugin, if you want to add new features to your store. If you create plugin, on new store you will need to upload and install it only. Also the upgrade process in the future, will be much easier with plugin. Please note that 1click app has the GrandNode 4.60 inside, because it's the latest stable version. We will update the image on Digital Ocean as soon as we publish the 4.70 stable version.

I have not modified any codes. I have only injected new design and modified the Views . Will that be a problem when trying to upgrade to new Version ?

It depends. If we modify original views files - for example we've added new feature to some part of store, you will get error that something is missing. But it's typical upgrade process in GrandNode development. If we haven't modified (improved) views files, themes will work without any issues.

Dear Patryk,

Can you update the page : https://grandnode.com/how-to-install-grandnode-on-digitalocean-with-docker-for-linux-containers

I tried digital ocean and could not find one-click app and Grandnode MongoDB

Hi,

Samson, it's better to use this tutorial to learn how to install GrandNode.

Cheers

Patryk wrote:

Thanks Patryk. Also can I ask you about How can I restore my local Database to Digital Ocean Mongo. I am using Mongo DB Compass Community. I sthere a way I can bring my local DB to hosted application in Digital Ocean?

I suppose you can create a database dump and then import it to your hosting.