Node.js is an event-driven environment built with Google's V8 JavaScript Engine. It’s used by scalable apps that need live communication between a server and the online users and can considerably boost the performance of any website that’s using it. Node.js is intended to process HTTP web requests and responses and incessantly supplies tiny amounts of information. For instance, in case a new user fills out a subscription form, the moment any information is inserted in any of the fields, it’s forwarded to the server even if the rest of the boxes are not filled and the user has not clicked on any button, so the info is handled a lot faster. In contrast, conventional platforms wait for the whole form to be filled and one massive chunk of information is then submitted to the server. No matter how tiny the difference in the information processing time may be, circumstances change in case the site expands and there are many persons using it at the same time. Node.js can be used for online booking portals, interactive web browser-based games or instant messaging systems, for example, and a lot of corporations, among them LinkedIn, Yahoo and eBay, have already incorporated it into their services.

Node.js in Shared Hosting

If you host an Internet application on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform and you wish to try out Node.js, you’ll be able to add it to your web hosting account regardless of the shared hosting plan that you are using. You can make this through the Upgrades section in the Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to take advantage of Node.js in no more than several minutes after you add this service to the account. You’ll be able to choose the number of instances that you would like to add to your account – one instance means that one application will be using Node.js. In the new section that will show up in the Control Panel, you can specify the path to the .js file in your web hosting account and choose if the file in question will be accessible via the physical server’s shared IP address or via a dedicated IP. Our system will also set a port number for the connection. You’ll be able to disable or to reboot each instance separately, if it is required.

Node.js in Dedicated Web Hosting

Node.js is included with all Linux dedicated servers hosting packages that are ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you’ll be able to make use of this event-driven platform once your dedicated machine is up and running. Since the Hepsia Control Panel is amazingly user-friendly, you’ll be able to do that without having any difficulty, even if you haven’t worked with the Node.js platform before, since everything that you’ll have to do on your end is enter the path to the .js file that will use the Node.js platform and the IP address that will be used to access this file. The latter can be a dedicated one or can be shared with other sites. You can run as many instances as you need on our exceptionally powerful dedicated servers and each of them can be controlled independently – you will be able to start, to restart or to discontinue it, to check the output of the application that uses it, etc. This can be done via the easy-to-use, point ‘n’ click Hepsia Control Panel, so you can make the most of the power of the Node.js platform with no effort.