Node.js is an event-driven platform built with the Google V8 JavaScript engine. It’s used by scalable apps that need real-time interaction between a server and the online users and can substantially improve the overall performance of any website that uses it. Node.js is designed to process HTTP requests and responses and constantly provides small bits of info. For example, in case a new user fills in a registration form, once any information is entered in one of the fields, it’s sent to the server even if the other boxes are not filled out and the user hasn’t clicked on any button, so the info is handled much faster. In contrast, conventional systems wait for the whole form to be filled and one large hunk of information is then sent to the server. Irrespective of how little the difference in the information processing speed may be, things change if the Internet site grows bigger and there are lots of users using it simultaneously. Node.js can be used by booking portals, real-time browser video games or live chat software, for example, and plenty of corporations, including eBay, LinkedIn and Yahoo, have already incorporated it into their services.

Node.js in Cloud Web Hosting

All cloud web hosting that we offer support Node.js and you are able to add this innovative event-driven platform to your shared web hosting account via the Add Services/Upgrades menu in your Hepsia Control Panel. You’ll be able to pick the number of instances for this particular upgrade, in other words how many separate websites/platforms will use Node.js at once, and you can activate as many instances as you want. Hepsia will also enable you to set the precise location of your .js app and to decide if you’ll use a dedicated IP or the physical server’s shared one. Accessing Node.js will be possible using a random port number set by our cloud system. On top of that, you can stop or reboot any instance that you have added, change the location of the .js app or view the output of the running instances with only several clicks of the mouse from your hosting Control Panel via a pretty easy-to-navigate interface.

Node.js in Dedicated Servers

Node.js comes with all dedicated servers that are ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you’ll be able to make the most of this platform once your server is up and running. Since the Hepsia Control Panel is quite easy to use, you’ll be able to make that without encountering any predicaments, even if you have never used the Node.js platform before, since everything that you will have to do on your end is indicate the location of the .js file that will use Node.js and the IP address that will be used to access the file. The latter can be a dedicated IP or can be shared with other sites. You can run as many Node.js instances as you wish on our super-powerful machines and each of them can be managed separately – you’ll be able to start, to reboot or to stop it, to see the output of the app using it, etc. This can be done through the simple-to-use, point & click Hepsia Control Panel, so you can make the most of the power of the Node.js platform with ease.