Nginx Load Balancer and Reverse Proxy for Node.js Applications On Digital Ocean Joe McCann Digitial Ocean is rad. A modern VPS with SSD servers for super cheap. Easy to spin up or down. Cloning and backing up images are a breeze and they have a solid, easy to use API with a great support team. I recently moved a bunch of my static sites to one machine on Digital Ocean. They are all sites powered by Express via Node.js . However, I wanted to put Nginx in front of them to act as a reverse proxy so I could have one machine serve up many websites. This was very simple to do and within an hour I had 7 sites up and running on one machine being handled by Nginx in front of all of them as the reverse proxy. However, to make these sites highly available, I needed to reconfigure my infrastructure a bit. I ended up needing not one, but three total machines. Machine 1 with Nginx installed (to act as load balancer and reverse proxy) Machine 2 with Node.js installed...
