Node.js is an open-source, event-driven runtime environment built with Google's V8 JavaScript Engine. It’s used for scalable web applications that require real-time interaction between a web server and the worldwide web users and can considerably accelerate the performance of any website that uses it. Node.js is intended to process HTTP web requests and responses and incessantly supplies little bits of information. For example, if a new user fills a signup form, the second any information is entered in any of the boxes, it is sent to the server even if the other fields are not filled out and the user hasn’t clicked any button, so the information is processed a lot faster. In contrast, conventional systems wait for the entire form to be filled out and one sizeable hunk of information is then delivered to the server. Regardless of how little the difference in the processing time may be, things change if the Internet site grows bigger and there are many people using it at the same time. Node.js can be used for booking portals, real-time web browser games or instant messaging apps, for instance, and plenty of corporations, including eBay, Yahoo and LinkedIn, have already implemented it in their services.

Node.js in Shared Website Hosting

As Node.js is available on our innovative cloud hosting platform, you’ll be able to add it to your shared web hosting account and to use it for any web app that you’ve got, irrespective of which shared website hosting package you have picked during the signup process. The Upgrades menu in the Hepsia Control Panel, which is offered with all accounts, will permit you to pick the number of instances that you would like to order – this is the number of the web applications that will use Node.js. Several minutes later, you will be able to include the path to the application, i.e. where the .js file will be located in your shared hosting account, as well as to pick the IP address to gain access to that file – a dedicated IP or the physical server’s shared one. In the new Node.js section that will show up in the Hepsia Control Panel, you’ll be able to restart an instance or to shut it down in case you don’t need it anymore. You will also gain access to the output code with just one mouse click.

Node.js in Dedicated Hosting

You will be able to use the Node.js platform with your real-time, script-powered web apps at no extra cost in case you order one of our Linux dedicated servers hosting packages and select the Hepsia Control Panel during the order procedure. The Node.js instances can be administered from the Node.js section of the Hepsia CP through an intuitive graphical interface, which will enable you to start/delete/reboot any Node.js instance or to see the output of the application that uses it with just one mouse click. Even if you aren’t very experienced, you will be able to make use of the Node.js platform, since all you will need to do to activate it is include the path to the .js file and select the IP address that will be used to access the latter – a dedicated or a shared one. A random port number will be set automatically too and you’ll see the benefits of using Node.js instantly. By mixing the platform with the power of our dedicated servers, you can use the full potential of your applications and to get the best conceivable performance.