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SoftTimur
SoftTimur

Reputation: 5540

Deploy a MEAN stack application to an existing server

I have a Ubuntu Server on DigitalOcean which hosts a website, and a Windows Server on AWS which hosts another website.

I just built a mean.js stack app on my MAC, and I plan to deploy it to production.

It seems that most of the existing threads discuss about using a new dedicated server. For example, this thread is about deploying on a new AWS EC2 instance; this video is about deploying on a new Windows Azure server; this is to create a new droplet in DigitalOcean.

My question is, is it possible to use an existing server (which hosts other websites), rather than creating a new server? If yes, will there be any difference in terms of performance?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 512

Answers (1)

Aren Hovsepyan
Aren Hovsepyan

Reputation: 2047

My question is, is it possible to use an existing server (which hosts other websites), rather than creating a new server?

Yes. Both Windows and Ubuntu allows you to deploy multiple applications on same instance.

For Ubuntu you can read this post which will help you server multiple apps. In this example used Nginx, but you can follow to this example and use it without any server like Apache or Nginx. If you need subdomains I would suggest to use Apache virtual hosts with reverse proxy module and pm2

For Windows and its IIS I would suggest to use iisnode, in google you can find a lot of articles how to configure it.

will there be any difference in terms of performance?

It is depended on your applications, if you are already serving applications which handles huge traffic and need CPU and memory, I would not suggest you to use multiple apps on same instance, but if you are going to use simple web apps, you can easily use same instance.

Hope this answer will help you!

Upvotes: 2

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