Get started#

To get started on hosting your own pufferblow server, you will need the following:

Setup a Linux VPS#

Numerous affordable VPS services are available, offering reliable Linux VPS solutions. Among the options that we recommend are:

Head over PostgreSQL’s download page and follow the instructions based on your distro.

Installing pufferblow is very straight forward all you need to do is:

pip install git+https://github.com/pufferblow/pufferblow.git

git clone https://github.com/pufferblow/pufferblow.git --depth=1
cd pufferblow
pip install -e .

pufferblow has a command called setup that enables you to set it up, all you need to do is run the following:

pufferblow setup

if it detects that a config file is already present, the following will be outputed:

A config file already exists. Do you want to continue? [y/n]:

but normaly it will ask you for your postgreSQL database name, the default is postgres:

PostgreSQL database name (postgres):

then it will ask you about the database’s username, password, host and port:

PostgreSQL database username:
PostgreSQL database password:
PostgreSQL database host:
PostgreSQL database name port:

after that it will ask you about some light info on your server, like the server name, description, welcome message:

Enter your server's name:
Enter your server's description:
Enter your server's welcome message for new members:

and lastly the username, password for the admin user:

Enter your owner account username:
Enter your owner account password:

Note

Don’t panic when typing in a password; it will not be shown by design.

Now you can start your pufferblow server with the following command:

pufferblow serve