Node.js is a leading-edge, event-driven input/output platform devised for Internet sites that support live interaction. Some examples of such websites are online browser video game portals, live chat rooms or hotel reservation portals. Node.js processes the info exchanged between the Internet site and its users in small bits, which improves the loading speed and the performance of the website substantially. If a certain form with 3 boxes has to be filled out by a particular user, for instance, ordinarily all three boxes should be filled out and their entire content is then forwarded as one huge chunk of information to the server. With Node.js, the content in the first box is processed the moment it is entered, before the user writes anything in the second one. In this way, a lot more info can be processed a lot faster and more effectively compared with any other system, which can have a huge influence on the overall performance of the website. Node.js is already being used by some of the top IT companies such as Yahoo and Microsoft.

Node.js in Cloud Hosting

You will be able to use Node.js with every cloud hosting plan that we are offering, since the event-driven platform is available on our cloud hosting servers and can be added to an existing shared web hosting account with several clicks. After you log into your Hepsia hosting Control Panel, you’ll see Node.js in the Upgrades section where you can pick the number of instances that you wish to get. One instance means that one single app will use the platform and you will be able to add as many instances to your web hosting account as you need. A new menu will appear in the Control Panel soon after that and to begin using Node.js, you will need to enter the path to the .js file that will use the platform and to decide if the connection will go through the server’s shared IP or through a dedicated IP. The controls inside Hepsia will also enable you to restart or to switch off an instance and to check the output of any given application.

Node.js in Dedicated Web Hosting

Node.js is available with all Linux dedicated web hosting on which our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed. The latter offers a rather intuitive and user-friendly GUI, so even if you’ve never used Node.js before, you’ll be able to unleash its true potential in only a few simple steps. As soon as you’ve uploaded the app’s content, you will have to indicate the folder path to the respective .js files that will use the Node.js platform and to pick the IP address which they’ll use (shared or dedicated), while our system will designate a random port that will be used to access the files in question. There isn’t any limit on the total number of Node.js instances that you can set up and use at the same time and you will have total control over them from the Hepsia Control Panel – you’ll be able to activate new ones or to cancel/reboot existing ones, to check the output log for each application, and so on.