How to host Meteor, React App

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Hey guys,

I am a newbie in Meteor, in desperate need to understand how to deploy and host Meteor App with React V.

With this question I hope not only to understand the ins and outs of hosting a Meteor/React/Apollo/GraphQL App, but also for the answers provide a comprehensive break-down of this for future newbies like I am now, so please be detailed in your answer, if possible.

The answer should:

1 - briefly mention what’s necessary to prepare the app for deployment
2 - how to deploy
3 - what hosting providers easiest/cheapest and most reliable (I read somewhere that Meteor hosting doesn’t provide the database layer - if this is true, pleas explain what needs to be done to compensate for this)
4 - what could be the scaling implications.

Many thanks in advance good sirs!

Cheers

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Hello,

this article is a good starting point: https://guide.meteor.com/deployment.html

We host our app on our own root server.
For that we are using following commands to deploy:

meteor build ../ --architecture os.linux.x86_64

#upload
scp ../YourProject.tar.gz root@YourIP:.

#login to your server

tar xvfz YourProject.tar.gz 

(cd bundle/programs/server && npm install)

#starting
MONGO_URL=mongodb://..... ROOT_URL=https://domain.de:3000 node bundle/main.js

We are using forever to keep the app running if the server reboots. Also we are hosting our own mongodb Server. But for that you can use a provider. Normaly 500 MB are free.

I hope I could help you out.

Fabian

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Hey Fabian,

Thanks for your reply - it’s a bit unclear (as for a first-timer) would Galaxy work with my Meteor/Apollo/Graphql/React - and would I have to do separate builds for the front end?

Perhaps there is a tutorial for this specific case that you (or someone) could point me to?

Would much appreciate if you could elaborate on the above!

Many thanks!

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Yes it should work. Because Galaxy is the hosting platform for Meteor.
But I haven’t used Galaxy. I think another person should answer your question.

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You can use Galaxy for this use case ( I do ).

I have found answers to my question inside this guide : https://galaxy-guide.meteor.com/deploy-quickstart.html#deploy-mac

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So yesterday we had a problem with hosting our app.
forever kept freezing our app when multiple users subscribed simultaneously. Our Core exploded to 145 % CPU usage…

Now we are using pw2 to start our app an so we can run up to 8 instances on the same time.

Yes we are having a dedicated Server to host our app with 8 Cores and 16gb of RAM. :slight_smile:

If you have specific question you can contact me personally and I will help you to set everything up.

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