node proxy server, bottle neck?

Question

We have 2 servers:

1. File API
2. Core API

File API on different server and the core API on different. We want to access both over same domain and port, we are using nodeJS as back-end platform.

So we came up with a solution of proxy server, (see the below illustration) :

Now the question is , will http-node-proxy create bottle neck on the proxy server or it will be a good architecture?

Answer 1

I would suggest using nginx as a reverse proxy server, and the Node.js apps as upstreams.

There are a lot of articles about this, I think that for example

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-node-js-application-for-production-on-ubuntu-14-04

is a good start.