On Friday, November 15, 2013 4:19:25 AM UTC-5, Alex Kocharin wrote: > > > On Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:22:16 PM UTC+4, Eric Mill wrote: >> >> I'm totally fine being told that the Unicorn model is the wrong way to >> think of things in Node. But what are the best practices >> > > There is no such thing called "best practice". You can ask what other > people do, but the best way to do something simply doesn't exist. >
Yeah, yeah -- sometimes there are best practices. :) for deploying a Node app where I'd like to be able to scale the number of >> processes up and down easily on a box? The model I'm used to is putting >> nginx in front, having it proxy to a Unix socket, and then having Unicorn >> watch the same Unix socket. >> >> I'm aware of node-http-proxy<https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy> - >> should I run one of these with forever<https://github.com/nodejitsu/forever> >> -- >> and then also manage my express processes with forever? How should I be >> conceiving of the problem? >> > > I'm using nginx for reverse proxy and pm2 for a supervisor. Nginx serves > static files faster (node-http-proxy is good, but it more suited for other > uses), and pm2 works better for me for a number of reasons. > I spent some time last night with "forever" and pm2. pm2 proved to have an annoying stopping bug<https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/issues/42#issuecomment-21705624> that the author can't or won't fix, instead referring users to use the unstable 0.11 branch (which immediately produced crashes in my app). I was able to get forever working the way I wanted to, so that's what I'm going with for now. pm2 seems nice, and more like the future, but it's also heavy and seems to have a larger code surface. > By the way yes, you would probably want to manage your processes with a > some kind of supervisor. It's quite usual to node processes to crash, and > it'll be nice to have something to restart them. > Yeah, unicorn's model is helpful for this. Phusion Passenger supports Node, but the free version only supports recompiling nginx with Passenger inside, an idea I hate. You can get the unicorn-like unix socket model for Node if you pay them money for their Enterprise version. If anyone knows of any free Node-optimized alternatives to forever and pm2, let me know. forever is good, but it could be better. -- Eric > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
