On: Lessons Learned while Converting from ASP.NET to ....

[awestroke]

You typically still use IIS but only as a reverse proxy

[cm2187 → awestroke]

So you set up the self hosted webservers on some non routable local IPs / ports, and set up IIS to map these IPs / ports to the external IP / hostname?

Sounds complicated. You have two states to maintain and keep synced. The .net core servers and IIS.

[blitzd → cm2187]

It's done with Node.js and nginx all the time. Other than the initial configuration nginx is essentially stateless, and there's simple setups out there to automate the nginx config as well, with docker for example: https://github.com/jwilder/nginx-proxy.

[35bge57dtjku → cm2187]

Of course it's complicated, you stipulated that all websites are running their own web server.

[cm2187 → 35bge57dtjku]

I am not. This seems to be what .net core does, according to the article.