Is node.js ready for production use? [closed]

Question

Starting a new project. It's basically a blogging/commenting system.

We're considering node.js as the back end server. Is node.js ready for this sort of thing or is it too early and experimental?

We need HTTPS and gzip compression - perhaps a front end nginx server could provide this?

What's missing from node.js that would make developing a web app difficult?

From a production ready perspective, we're wondering if it is stable enough for building a commercial app on top of.

Thanks

Answer 1

UPDATE: Almost a year has passed and now I'd definitely use node.js for live systems.

It's not ready. It sure is an awesome piece of software but it's not suitable for production use yet. The developer of node.js himself stated in a talk, that it's probably full of bugs and security issues.

This is the talk: http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/05/20/video-dahl/

He recommends that IF it is to be used in a production environment, you should place it behind a stable http proxy like nginx but he discourages doing that at all.

I'll wait for a production release and until then, play with it on my local machine.