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Discussion on: Hosting a Node.js application on Windows with IIS as reverse proxy

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Jainil viren parikh • Edited

Hi @petereysermans
Isn't it a bad choice to run the node js program on a terminal? I mean the terminal might hang ( usually the case with windows terminal when there is too much load ).

ANother thing, whats the use of IIS in this case, when the requests are finally served by the windows terminal? I understand that we are using it as a reverse proxy but isn't reverse proxy used for load balancing( which is only useful when we have multiple instances of the node.js application running in the backend?)