Top support questions not addressed in handbook. about handbook HOT 8 CLOSED

@hij1nx I think (many of) these might be more appropriate to include in our knowledge base at http://nodejitsu.assistly.com. What do you think?

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At a glance, assistly === assistance. handbook === how-to. these feel like pretty basic how-to questions that people are going to the handbook for.

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Yeah, sure. Plus, it would suck to have to try and pull material out of the kb in the future.

@hij1nx Any other relevant support questions? At one point we had plans for a "faq" section in the handbook, and I think that might be a good place for some of these kinda things.

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I've been thinking about this issue, had a few questions/comments/concerns:

2. how to host my domains/how is DNS handled

Do you mean, "how do I get a custom url pointing to my app?" For example, making http://jesusabdullah.net point to the http://jesusabdullah-site.nodejitsu.com app or something?

4. how do I run something that requires an external binary to be started

Do you mean, like, some "back-end" process written in some arbitrary language that you want your node process to talk to?

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on point 2, yes. you are correct. you're already making good =)
on point 4) no. i mean something more like "How do i want to deploy a non-web servrer such as a nodejs program that takes arguments on start up and/or runs as a daemon"

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Okay, 4) sounds like it's kinda answered by 1) and 3) to me, so I'll let it be unless something comes up to differentiate this question and/or the answer to 3) implies that it's a more reasonable use case (ie, "You can listen on ports other than 80 and have it Just Work"). In terms of cli arguments, I would think that people deploying apps would write them such that their entry point uses a configure script or has the options hardcoded.

Anyways: I'll put the answers to 1) and 3) into an FAQ chapter for now, but wait until we have a few more questions before I bundle it into the handbook proper since an FAQ of two easy questions seems a bit silly. I'll also open an issue for FAQ topics.

Sound good?

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I'm gonna go ahead and close this issue.

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sounds good.

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