&gt; I&#x27;ve only been able to serve a small handful of concurrent users at a time with Express.<p>Something&#x27;s massively wrong with your node setup. node won&#x27;t be as fast, but it should be on the same order of magnitude as nginx: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;observing&#x2F;balancerbattle" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;observing&#x2F;balancerbattle</a> (or any other benchmark)