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Thanks Jason and David for you input. Yes, to clarify I've worked on some node apps on a workstation then push them onto a production server to see how it works with other things on that server. However, it seems like the better route is to start up a instance dedicated just for node apps. I'll try out nginx and Passenger to see if it meets our needs. Best, Junior Junior Tidal Assistant Professor Web Services and Multimedia Librarian New York City College of Technology, CUNY 300 Jay Street, Rm A434 Brooklyn, NY 11201 718.260.5481 http://library.citytech.cuny.edu >>> Jason Ronallo <[log in to unmask]> 12/11/2014 1:22 PM >>> Junior, Not exactly your question, but there are sometimes reasons to proxy your node.js app behind another Web server (say to share a domain or subdomain with other applications or content without using a new public port). Choose nginx in that case if you can. There are good tutorials for setting up node.js apps as an upstream of nginx. The evented model of nginx works better in cases where you're using some of the things node.js (or should I be saying io.js these days?) excels at like keeping WebSocket connections open. You'll generally get better concurrency and memory use with nginx in these cases. Apache's blocking and threaded model is not suitable for things like WebSockets. I can't say I fully understand all this, but from what I've read and experienced it is true. Reading David Naughton's post: I recommend Passenger to folks who aren't system admins and want to run Ruby, node.js, or wsgi applications. nginx is very easy to install using Passenger's installer and then you can choose to use Passenger or not. If you use Passenger and your node app is not set up to deal with multiple instances spawning then you will run into issues, so you'll want to set the maximum instances for your application in Passenger config to 1. Jason On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Junior Tidal <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to experiment with node.js on our production server to create a > small calendar app. > > I was wondering if it's better to run node.js on the same server with > Apache, or to set it up a separate cloud instance? > > I'm not sure if one is better than the other. > > Best, > > Junior Tidal > Assistant Professor > Web Services and Multimedia Librarian > New York City College of Technology, CUNY > 300 Jay Street, Rm A434 > Brooklyn, NY 11201 > 718.260.5481 > > http://library.citytech.cuny.edu >