Node.js & Meteor.js hosting on NodeChef
Deploying a Node.js application to NodeChef bare metal cloud platform is as simple as running a single command or uploading your project folder from the dashboard.
The NodeChef platform takes care of application setup and container orchestration. With a simple web interface, you can scale each layer of your stack in a few clicks.
NodeChef bridges the gap between fortune 100 companies that can afford to run and manage an in-house dedicated infrastructure and small and mid sized businesses that seek dedicated hosting at an affordable price.
NodeChef managed bare metal cloud is more affordable and also outperforms VPS hosting and can save you tons of work configuring and managing your application.
Architecture
| Layer | Role |
| Load Balancer | The load balancer is responsible for routing traffic to your application containers. The load balancer is also responsible for serving your static assets if you choose to. This can significantly improve performance and save the cost of the round trip to your application containers. The load balancer also supports sticky sessions. The platform dynamically configures the load balancer to route traffic to and from application containers on code updates or cluster changes. |
| Application Containers | The application containers run your backend code. You can scale this layer to as many containers as you want. |
| Production grade SQL and NoSQL databases | NodeChef dedicated databases runs on bare metal with local SSD and guaranteed RAM, IO and CPU. NodeChef also supports a slow query analyzer, continous backups and PITR, replication and high availability for all databases. |
Real-time monitoring
The NodeChef task manager allows you in real time to monitor the memory and CPU usage of your App. You can also monitor incoming client connections and the total requests per second dispatched to your app containers. You can also monitor your application logs in real-time from the dashboard.
Metrics
The NodeChef platform provides the following metrics from the dashboard. Metrics are available for a up to 24 hours.
- RAM and CPU usage of both App containers and database server.
- Count of HTTP(s) connections
- Count of active web sockets
- Count of failed request due to a 60 second timeout
- Response latencty