Question regarding the typical way Zotonic is deployed on (potentially) high-traffic production sites.
How many people use Zotonic/Cowboy without a proxy in front? I read that the creator of Cowboy recommends using a proxy, and many Elixir/Phoenix developers appear to use a proxy also, partially for the security that having a well-tested front end filtering bad requests can provide...along with nice traffic stats. I ask this question because I am setting up a new server now, and there are two issues that have come up using HAProxy in front of Zotonic so far. 1) There are some issues with Stripe/mod_payment(_stripe) that may be related to Stripe headers being modified (need further testing). 2) It would be nice for Zotonic to send emails directly, rather than using an external SMTP server. However, that requires Erlang compatible certificates, which means overhauling the current certificate acquisition/distribution flow and/or managing different certificates types for the Proxy and Zotonic. In both cases it seems simpler to simply remove the proxy and let Zotonic/Cowboy handle traffic directly. I read somewhere that MZeeman found Zotonic was much faster without a proxy, but in his situation most users are paying customers, not random internet users. Any feedback is welcome... -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Zotonic developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to zotonic-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/zotonic-developers/39652344-de30-43dd-bd54-b2c23c89b5adn%40googlegroups.com.
