# Helping someone on a project - is NR an option?
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889
**Category:** General
**Created:** [8 December 2025 08:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889 "2025-12-08T08:07:50Z")
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### Author:  [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)
#### Post date: [8 December 2025 08:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889/1 "2025-12-08T08:07:50Z")
Someone is wanting to have a _web service_ so they can post _Articles_ for other (selected) people to read.
No comments or talking.
Just _Articles_ being shared.
Text/pictures - maybe.
## What I know so far:
NR is problematic and needs to be secured or all sorts of problems can happen.
DB-2 would be the better way to go - if NR is at all usable.
## Questions:
Can the **EDIT** port and the **GUI** port be different?
Passwords are needed.
_Security via obscurity_ would be a good idea for the port/s used.
Not perfect, but a good idea all the same - yes?
## _TLDR_😉
(Background - what I know in the bigger picture)
For privacy I won't go into extreme details, but enough to explain the idea.
They are new to computers.
They - a small group - would like to have their own sharing system.
The _Media_ side of things woudl be more like `Jellyfin`.
But that's a whole other story.
The term _WEB SERVER_ was mentioned and when I asked more about what they meant it was said they want to share _Articles_.
Not for discussions on the site. Just to share them.
All/any other stuff would happen outside the scope of this.
I'm not sure _Web server_ encapsulates this - or not.
I'm also not sure NR is the right thing/platform.
So I'm asking.
I don't have a full picture of it all and it won't be happening for a couple of months.
But my OCD has kicked off/in and I'm just doing the ground work.
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@gregorius](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/gregorius)
#### Post date: [8 December 2025 08:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889/2 "2025-12-08T08:34:24Z")
> [@Trying\_to\_learn](#):
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> NR is problematic and needs to be secured or all sorts of problems can happen.
?? Use the http-in node to accept requests, use the template node to create content and use the http-response node to send the content to the user.
> [@Trying\_to\_learn](#):
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> Can the **EDIT** port and the **GUI** port be different?
Totally: [blog](https://blog.openmindmap.org) not the same as [NR interface](https://not-posting.here.example.com) - I run the NR interface for my blog on a completely different domain (that can also be "discovered" but isn't related to the blog domain).
Also for user name _and_ password I would suggest use some random strings of characters - using a password manager helps to store this combination. Using 'admin' or 'root' as username is already giving half the secret away but a _username_ that looks like this 'a6WuzXBvghpFOMsJOpz3ukAS7RYMgLpx' is damn hard to guess _and_ remember!
As for content, I would genuinely suggest just using the template nodes to store page content - no database needed! Images can be stored on an CDN - for extra bonus points use the NR dashboad to create a file uploader to upload images to the CDN - automagically. The old dashboard and has a wonderfully simple [file uploader](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-ui-upload) plugin for handling file uploads.
If you're looking for a cheap CDN, think of [github pages](https://docs.github.com/en/pages) and imagine if instead of html, there were to be gifs/jpegs in the repository .... and e'Voila a cheap CDN. But you could also just use github pages for static content - but that would take all the fun of knowing how to use NR 😉
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [8 December 2025 08:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889/3 "2025-12-08T08:36:09Z")
> [@Trying\_to\_learn](#):
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> wanting to have a _web service_ so they can post _Articles_ for other (selected) people to read.
Would a blog do?
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### Author:  [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)
#### Post date: [8 December 2025 08:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889/4 "2025-12-08T08:37:27Z")
Unsure.
I suggested that but I'm not sure the person knows the exact specifics of what they want to do.
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### Author:  [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)
#### Post date: [8 December 2025 08:38 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889/5 "2025-12-08T08:38:35Z")
> [@Trying\_to\_learn](#):
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> I'm not sure the person knows the exact specifics of what they want to do
Until they know what they want to do you can't help much.
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### Author:  [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)
#### Post date: [8 December 2025 08:39 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889/6 "2025-12-08T08:39:45Z")
I hear/read that with DBV2 I/you can set different ports for editing and viewng.
So that is a good thing.
So the edit port would be kept local, but the DB V2 would be the one sent to the router and I use port forward and pick an obscure external port to the desired port.
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### Author:  [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)
#### Post date: [8 December 2025 08:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889/7 "2025-12-08T08:40:44Z")
Yeah, my ...... (think think think) eagerness is sometimes a bit over the top.
Indulge my stupidity, what is a `blog` thing?
How much _work_ would it need?
Sorry forgot to state:
They want to keep it on a small machine.
Probably RasPi.
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [8 December 2025 08:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889/8 "2025-12-08T08:57:02Z")
Perhaps a Facebook account would satisfy the (vague) requirements?
> [@Trying\_to\_learn](#):
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> They want to keep it on a small machine.
> Probably RasPi.
Why on earth would they want to physically hold the computer with their website on it?
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### Author:  [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)
#### Post date: [8 December 2025 08:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889/9 "2025-12-08T08:58:41Z")
Yeah, but they want the server to be theirs.
Not a third party.
Maybe it is just an exercise in learning, I don't know.
But they seem interested in getting it up and working.
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [8 December 2025 10:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889/10 "2025-12-08T10:07:34Z")
Personally, I would be wary of using Node-RED for this as it feels like too complex an architecture.
This sounds like a straight-forward blog and there are plenty of tools for that. My current favourite is Astro. Astro can be run in two modes, a static mode simply turns a collection of markdown documents into a coherent website, you can use a straight web server to deliver it. The other mode is more dynamic and allows dynamic content using server-side and/or client-side code. For that mode, you need an Astro microservice running of course.
Both modes use node.js (just for delivery in the case of a static site).
As part of the customer's business requirements, you need to also understand what performance will be required. How many articles? How many visitors, etc.
For myself, I would simply stand up an Astro system and link through via Cloudflare Zero Trust to get the best performance and security.
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### Author:  [@Trying\_to\_learn](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Trying_to_learn)
#### Post date: [8 December 2025 19:00 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889/11 "2025-12-08T19:00:49Z")
Thanks.
Much appreciated.
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [9 December 2025 09:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889/12 "2025-12-09T09:02:39Z")
Oh, and by-the-way, if using Astro's dynamic features, there is nothing stopping you using Node-RED to provide API's to Astro and so getting the best of both worlds! 😃
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [23 December 2025 09:03 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/helping-someone-on-a-project-is-nr-an-option/99889/13 "2025-12-23T09:03:16Z")
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