Migrate to Mongolab

Recently i ran into RAM troubles on my vserver for some reasons, i encountered the evil:

So first i suspected mongodb to use up loads of memory as top showed.

But after some recherche work i learned mongodb only -seems- to use a lot of memory.
see here and here and here
The actual usage was around 20mb RAM, so mongodb was innocent.

The true RAM monsters were some apache and php-fpm zombies, but thats another story.

While suspecting mongodb i thought about outsourcing the mongodb and i found a free and sufficient offer in mongolab.
My interests were on and i gave it a try.
The free version has a limit for up to 240MB storage and since my app is just a small counter it should last for some time.

The registration was easy, creation of the database aswell and the administration panel is also pretty cool and informative.

Then create a user and migrate:

First get my data from the vserver on the vserver:

Then fetch it to my local machine:

Ups i didnt had no mongo client on my local machine, go get it:

Now connect to the mongolab via your console

Hey works, great!
Alright see you later.

Now import the dumps to continue the counter there were i stopped.

Good!

Then teach the php app the new connection:

There you go! The counter is storing its stuff to the mongolab database.
And i can stop the mongod on my machine and free some memory.