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I'm concerned about adding ngnix to the system as that's a fairly significant change to a working system. There are a lot of variables and sites involved. I've considered reverse-proxying entirely within Apache to avoid adding ngnix another layer. But this really hinders some of the advantages of node which makes me wonder if it's worth even doing. It seems like node is best when it can handle the requests directly.…
> It seems like node is best when it can handle the requests directly What makes you believe that?
Node's single process event-loop model of handling requests seems in direct contrast to apache's one heavy-weight process/thread per request model.