title: How to mongoimport in a remote server
body: <p>I'm trying to create a simple website that displays a table based on a relatively small json data (>5MB). I plan on importing the <strong>json</strong> into <strong>MongoDB</strong> and performing queries using a driver (either Mongoose or PyMongo). As the data size is very small, I'd like to avoid using the cloud service so that I only pay for the server costs.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried to familiarize myself with <code>mongoimport</code> by trying that on my local machine. I was successful in importing the data locally but now I'd like to do this on the remote server.</p>
  
  <p>How would you do this on a remote server? As I understand, <code>mongod</code> should be running in the background to start <code>mongo</code> or <code>mongoimport</code>. How do you achieve this with one window? Is there a guide that any of you found helpful in doing this type of a job?</p>