fix: harden SSR server with keepalive fix, error handling, and health check#13
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… check Root cause of overnight 502s on Render: Node's default keepAliveTimeout (5s) is shorter than Cloudflare's idle timeout (~100-900s). After 5s idle, Node closes the TCP connection. Cloudflare doesn't know, sends a request on the dead socket, gets a TCP RST, returns 502. This happens at the TCP layer, invisible to Express/Sentry/application logging. Fix: set keepAliveTimeout to 120s and headersTimeout to 125s per Render docs and Node.js issue #59193. Additional hardening (ported from step-thru #125): - try/catch around renderPage() with 500 fallback HTML page - 30s request timeout middleware (kills stalled SSR renders) - GET /health endpoint + healthCheckPath in render.yaml - Global Express error handler as safety net - Slow request logging (>5s) and 5xx error logging (structured JSON) - Process lifecycle logging (SIGTERM, uncaughtException, unhandledRejection) - Memory monitoring (warns at 400MB heap, checked every 60s) - Startup log with port and Node version
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Summary
Ports the SSR hardening from step-thru (PR #125) to this template.
Root cause of overnight 502s on Render: Node's default `keepAliveTimeout` (5s) is shorter than Cloudflare's idle timeout (~100-900s). After 5s idle, Node closes the TCP connection. Cloudflare doesn't know, sends a request on the dead socket, gets a TCP RST, returns 502. The failure happens at the TCP layer, invisible to Express/Sentry/application logging.
Fix: set `server.keepAliveTimeout = 120000` and `server.headersTimeout = 125000` (must be greater than keepAliveTimeout per Node.js requirement). See Render docs and nodejs/node#59193.
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