Another reason people use node-http-proxy is that it's actually javascript, which means that one can configure it however they like as they're working in a true turing complete language. If you want to store your rules in redis and have a dashboard to change them on the fly, there's nothing stopping you.
https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/issues/198 ping people here if you want benchmarks. On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Alan Hoffmeister <alanhoffmeis...@gmail.com > wrote: > @akira, I had experience with nginx and other languages, but this is > the first time that I had deployed a 100% javascript stack. > Let's wait and see what this stack it's capable of. > > A good point for node-http-proxy is the support for socket.io out of the > box ;) > > -- > Att, > Alan Hoffmeister > > > > 2012/4/13 akira <nhy...@googlemail.com>: > > This is very interesting. I always though that Node developers use > > Nginx in their stack for proxying. But reading the docs, node-http- > > proxy is mentioned as battle-hardened. How does this hold up when one > > serves images? Is the performance comaparable? Nginx is alleged to be > > almost unbeatable at serving static files, but if there is some way to > > optimize a pure node stack, I would not really mind if it was a bit > > slower. > > > > Anyone with experience on this? Figures? > > > > Thanks > > > > On Apr 12, 11:25 pm, mlegenhausen <mlegenhau...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> @alan Why you want to do that? You also normally don't run several MySQL > >> instances for each site? That's why you can define databases and > >> collections and not just only collections ;) > > > > -- > > 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 nodejs@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > 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 nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- chrisrhoden -- 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 nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
