Is anyone using Node.js as an actual web server? [closed]
I am trying to convince myself to pick it up and start developing with it, but I want to know if anyone has expected stability issues or anything of the sort.
I understand it isn't "production" quality, like Apache or IIS. I figure for a small site, it should be fine (max of 200 concurrent connections). Should I assume this?
Plurk.com uses Node.js for their Comet engine, they have a fairly high traffic load too.
Blog post about Plurk using Node.js
Since node.js has not been around long enough to have satisfied the greater community that it's stable and secure, many production deployments use Apache or nginx as a web server that proxies http requests to node running on a different port that is not accessible from the machine's public IP address.
Also forever may be able to help with the node stability issue.