Scaling Node.JS across multiple cores / servers

Question

Ok so I have an idea I want to peruse but before I do I need to understand a few things fully.

Firstly the way I think im going to go ahead with this system is to ha

Answer 1

Firstly, I wouldn't describe the setup you propose as 'scaling', it's more like 'spreading'. You only have one app server serving the requests. If you add more app servers in the future, then you will have a scaling problem then.

I understand that node.js is single-threaded, which implies that it can only use a single core. Not my area of expertise on how to/if you can scale it, will leave that part to someone else.

I would suggest NFS mounting a directory on the storage server to the app server. NFS has relatively low overhead. Then you can access the files as if they were local.