Node.js is an open-source, event-driven system built with the Google V8 JavaScript engine. It’s used for scalable web applications that need real-time interaction between a web server and the worldwide web users and can noticeably speed up the performance of any Internet site that’s using it. Node.js is designed to process HTTP requests and responses and incessantly provides little amounts of information. For example, if a new user fills out a registration form, as soon as any info is entered in one of the boxes, it’s delivered to the server even if the other boxes are not filled and the user hasn’t clicked any button, so the information is handled much faster. In comparison, conventional platforms wait for the entire form to be filled and one sizeable hunk of information is then sent to the server. Irrespective of how tiny the difference in the processing speed may be, things change if the site grows bigger and there’re plenty of users using it simultaneously. Node.js can be used for booking sites, real-time browser-based games or instant messengers, for instance, and plenty of companies, including Yahoo, eBay and LinkedIn, have already integrated it into their services.

Node.js in Cloud Website Hosting

All cloud website hosting offered by us support Node.js and you’ll be able to add this avant-garde event-driven platform to your shared web hosting account using the Add Services/Upgrades link in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You can choose the amount of instances for this particular upgrade, in other words how many separate websites/platforms will make use of Node.js at once, and you can activate as many instances as you wish. The Hepsia Control Panel will also enable you to select the exact path to your .js app and to select whether you will use a dedicated IP or the server’s shared one. Accessing Node.js will be possible through a randomly generated port selected by our cloud system. On top of that, you can stop or reboot any instance that you have added, edit the path to the .js application or see the output of the running instances with just several clicks from your hosting Control Panel using a pretty user-friendly graphical interface.

Node.js in VPS Servers

Node.js is offered as standard with each VPS server that comes with the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel and involves no constraints with regard to the number of websites that can use it at any particular moment. This makes our VPS packages an optimal choice for building multiple real-time web applications and for getting the most out of them. Hepsia is intuitive enough even for users without any prior experience, so if you want to activate Node.js for any app, it will not take more than several mouse clicks to do it. You’ll simply need to indicate the path to the .js file in question and to choose whether Node.js will use the server’s shared IP address or a dedicated IP. Our platform will also choose a particular port that will be used to access the .js file. Right after that, you will be all set and ready to use the full potential of your real-time applications. Hepsia will enable you to see the output of the applications and to reboot or to cancel any of your instances using quick-access buttons.

Node.js in Dedicated Servers

If you decide to purchase any of our Linux dedicated web hosting plans for your script-based web applications and if you select the Hepsia hosting Control Panel on the order page, you will be able to make use of Node.js at no additional charge, as the platform is built into our custom-developed tool. As our dedicated servers are extremely powerful, you will get great results even if you host many Node.js instances simultaneously. The setup requires a couple of clicks and Hepsia’s interface will make it quite easy for you to set up a new instance even if you’ve got little or no previous experience. Specifying the path to the .js file and selecting a shared or a dedicated IP will be everything that you will have to do yourself and once our system has chosen a port to access the .js file, you’ll be all set. Any of the Node.js instances that you have activated can be restarted or shut down independently and you will be granted with access to an in-depth output log for each of the applications that use Node.js.