[moron4hire]

Faster than Ruby or Python doesn't mean anything if it's objectively slow. And it is. I've only been able to serve a small handful of concurrent users at a time with Express. I'm talking 5 or 6 before things get out of hand.

You should aim to have the bulk of your payload be static, and all of the static payload be served by apache or nginx. It's the difference between getting good feedback from a Show HN post or completely missing out and looking like a fool.

[nailer]

> I've only been able to serve a small handful of concurrent users at a time with Express.

Something's massively wrong with your node setup. node won't be as fast, but it should be on the same order of magnitude as nginx: https://github.com/observing/balancerbattle (or any other benchmark)