exc for moon active assumptions:
- the server gets the date and content in json or url encoded (uses body parser). the content fromat is a simple string and the date is the number of milliseconds since midnight January 1, 1970 which can be achieved with d = new date; d.getTime()
- The server prints messages to the console but does not keep on saving them at the database after they were printed to the console.
- The Redis DB connection that the server will look for is the default port of redis on localhost