I'm trying to teach myself more Mongo, so here's my quick notes on how I installed it, configured it and run a benchmark using YSCB (Yahoo! Cloud System Benchmark).

Installing Mongo:

1. Add the Mongo repository file /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-3.4.repo:

[mongodb-org-3.4]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl …

These instructions have been tested on a 4GB RAM, 2 vCPUs atlantic.net VPS - nope I don't work for them, but I'm quickly becoming a huge fan

1. Update pkg:

env ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES pkg upgrade

2. Get the ports tree

time portsnap fetch extract

Took about 5 minutes:

110.871 …