Hmm I see, it's all consistent with the response I got from stackoverflow. The problem is I have no idea how to configure that reverse proxy and when I do it just dies on me.

Thanks a lot :) and please please let me know if you find anything, will be really helpful.

Hi there Joe Gaspar we were able to set it up by creating a subdomain (backend.ourdomain.com) and handling port 3000 there (with Apache reverse proxy), just thought it would be good to leave you a comment. Thanks for the help.

Hi Diego Ponciano, I'm sorry I did not. I completely forgot about this. As for subdomains, make sure you're using a wildcard certificate. If you're using Letsencrypt, you have to explicitly add the subdomain to your cert, as they haven't yet implemented wildcard certs yet (coming January 2018).