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0 pointstootie1y ago0 comments

I honestly wonder why not just write your web server in node or something. It would be traceable and testable and probably performant enough. There's just so much arcana inside platforms like traefik or nginx where they do all this miraculous stuff if you just add the right flags, but also when it doesn't work it's a total black box and there's no way to discover what it thinks it's doing.

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CoolCold1y ago

I like that "probably" for perfomant here, but let's focus on features so far.

Let's imagine we go this way, implemented own self made webserver in nodejs, started using it and the next day it will be required to add simple things like basic auth for specific location or ACL based on Maxmind geo data or even setting straightforward round-robin balancing among several php-fpm upstream, even without weights - what would be the flow here? Involving dev team and trying to put those tasks into their backlog?

Why it's better than just adjust Nginx config in 5-10 minutes?

itintheory1y ago

The Traefik dashboard is pretty helpful for visualizing what's happening. Also their error message are usually pretty clear about what's wrong.

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