Like Vendan, I run my Go webapps on port 8080 (so I don't need root) and then have a very simple HAProxy setup that forwards port 80 to port 8080. Then I write

Like Vendan, I run my Go webapps on port 8080 (so I don't need root) and then have a very simple HAProxy setup that forwards port 80 to port 8080. Then I write a simple service for my Go app so I can control it with systemctl.