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Setting up hosting for MongoDB

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- [Instructor] All right, so now that we're a little bit more familiar with what MongoDB is and how it's going to help our project, let's get MongoDB set up. Now, there are multiple ways that you can get started with MongoDB, from installing it locally, to using a fully hosted version of MongoDB, and we're actually going to be taking the second route and using something called MongoDB Atlas. Essentially MongoDB Atlas is just a simple platform that allows us to set up databases and then connect to them and query them very easily, right? So, the first thing that you're going to want to do is go to MongoDB Atlas. You should be able to get there by going to cloud.mongodb.com. If that URL doesn't work, just search for MongoDB Atlas. And in order to get there, you're going to need to create an account, which is pretty easy. You can just sign in with Google or use your email, and once you've gone through that whole process, it should take you to a page that looks something like this here…

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