Hi, I was directed here by the support team. I have a project that requires a lot of help and I'm at a level of inexperience that will probably elicit some laughter. Basically I need to set up open source AirByte on a NodeJS server and have gotten as far as SSH'ing into the server lol. Any help would be appreciated, even if you could point me in the direction of a good tutorial to get me started - this is sort of a "throw him in the deep end" type thing and I'm trying to do it the right way by learning as much as I can while asking for help.

Sounds like you're deploying on a VM. The getting starting guides will probably help you out quite a bit. Perhaps https://docs.airbyte.com/deploying-airbyte/on-aws-ec2 - items 2 & 3 in environment setup and then item 2 in install airbyte? It sounds like you don't know much about the VM you're installing this on, so I'd at least make sure it has adequate CPU/memory (you can always check with something like

top

once you connect via ssh)

This looks great, I'll get stuck into it in the morning but thank you for taking the time to get back to me. I'm at this weird point in my development where I know some minor things but I'm trying to branch out, but asking for help also sounds like I'm asking other people to do the work for me, which rubs a lot of people the wrong way. I appreciate you showing me the right direction.

Welcome to the community @Duncan Reyneke!! Slack and the forum are here for a reason, please continue posting questions 🙂 For everyone who speaks up and asks something, there are 10 users who got frustrated with the same issue but didn't find an answer. By posting here, you are helping users in the future find answers to their questions. Definitely check out the getting started guides linked above, if you have more questions please share details on your setup (specs, OS, etc) and we'll try to help. Also if you haven't already, you may want to try deploying locally first to get a feel for how Airbyte runs and configuration 🙂