Thursday 4 May 2017

What type of load balancer set should I use for my Apache/NodeJS app?

I have been working on a NodeJS app for a while and have it setup using a reverse-proxy with Apache and NodeJS with Express. Presently, it's setup on a DigitalOcean Droplet and all requests go straight to the box, but I'm very much wanting to put the box behind a load balancer box before going public with it.

A little reading I've done seems to suggest a lot of NGINX setups for load balancers. Alternatively, I read a bit into a node based load balancer node-http-proxy.

My trials with the node-http-proxy setup have been questionable at best. I can't seem to get any requests to successfully proxy through. I suppose that leaves me with NGINX, but I don't know how nice NGINX will play with Apache setups, if at all.

Is NGINX my best option? What other options could I consider?



via Matthew Stanley

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