Building a Node.js Web Server with HAProxy and Let’s Encrypt on Debian Stretch

Re:Building a Node.js Web Server with HAProxy and Let’s Encr... by JamesTheHacker on Saturday June 24, 2017 @07:27AM (#14625225)

Brother, there's a million ways to skin a cat. The article is already 2000 words long and took me a long time to write/test. Going into huge amounts of detail isn't within the scope of the article.

A appreciate the feedback you posted below, and will be making modifications to the article to address some things I wasn't aware of

But, the setup works. There is no zero downtime. I've been using this setup for my smaller applications for over a year and I've never had downtime. Ever.

Also, I rarely provision in bash and haven't provisioned a server manually for a very long time. I use Ansible. But, regular node developers are unlikely likely to be using Vagrant, Docker, Ansible, Chef etc. I didn't want to include that complexity.

I'll address these issues today. You could have gave the feedback without the ear bashing but I'll take that as you're being "cruel to be kind" :)

Peace

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Re:Building a Node.js Web Server with HAProxy and Let’s Encr... by stephenr on Saturday June 24, 2017 @08:48AM (#14625411)

The steps you had (I haven't checked for updates) definitely wouldn't produce a working setup - for the reasons I detailed in my other comment.

I'm not saying "this is fundamentally the wrong way to do skin a cat", it seems to be trying to achieve what I consider to be one of the best ways to skin said cat, but the article had (and may still have) actual technical errors that could not produce a skinned cat.

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Re:Building a Node.js Web Server with HAProxy and Let’s Encr... by JamesTheHacker on Saturday June 24, 2017 @08:51AM (#14625418)

I honestly really appreciate the advice, it's been super helpful. I have now amended the article. I will revisit it tonight and go into a little more detail explaining what everything does.

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