Multiple services in one webservice

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Hey,
I am trying to start 2 services, one on port 3000 (nodejs) the other on port 8090 (pocketbase). I am using node foreman to start both services simultaneously, judging from a thread titled “best-practices-to-run-multiple-process-in-a-web-service”, it seems plausible, I can’t link the thread because of the link limit
However, upon deployment, I am stuck at the following step:

Jul 22 01:59:11 PM > towa@0.1.0 start
Jul 22 01:59:11 PM > nf --procfile etc/Procfile.prod start
Jul 22 01:59:11 PM
Jul 22 01:59:15 PM 8:59:14 PM web.1 | - ready started server on 0.0.0.0:3000, url: http://localhost:3000
Jul 22 01:59:20 PM ==> Using Node version 20.3.0 via environment variable NODE_VERSION

Jul 22 01:59:20 PM ==> Starting service with ‘npm start’
Jul 22 01:59:24 PM
Jul 22 01:59:24 PM > towa@0.1.0 start
Jul 22 01:59:24 PM > nf --procfile etc/Procfile.prod start
Jul 22 01:59:24 PM
Jul 22 01:59:28 PM 8:59:27 PM web.1 | - ready started server on 0.0.0.0:3000, url: http://localhost:3000

Please advise

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update, deploying just a single service using “next start” works just fine, does this mean we can’t deploy multiple services under one instance?

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Hi,

You can start multiple processes, but only one process/port can be exposed to the public internet, as covered in the docs: https://render.com/docs/web-services#host-and-port-configuration

All processes/ports could be accessed internally by other services in your account (but not when using free instance types). Running multiple processes on the same service often isn’t a great setup as it could affect performance and likely effect your ability to scale.

Alan

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