Node.js is an open-source, event-driven environment built with the Google V8 JavaScript engine. It’s used for scalable web applications that need real-time interaction between a server and the Internet users and can tremendously accelerate the overall performance of any Internet site that uses it. Node.js is intended to handle HTTP requests and responses and constantly supplies little bits of info. For instance, in case a new user fills a signup form, the second any info is entered in any of the fields, it’s forwarded to the server even if the rest of the boxes are not filled and the user hasn’t clicked on any button, so the info is handled much faster. In contrast, conventional platforms wait for the whole form to be filled and one giant chunk of information is then sent to the server. Regardless of how small the difference in the information processing time may be, things change if the website grows bigger and there are a lot of users using it at the same time. Node.js can be used by booking websites, interactive web browser games or online chat platforms, for example, and numerous companies, including Yahoo, eBay and LinkedIn, have already incorporated it into their services.

Node.js in Shared Website Hosting

If you host a web application on our advanced cloud hosting platform and you’d like to try out Node.js, you will be able to add it to your hosting account regardless of the shared website hosting package that you are using. You can make this via the Upgrades section in the Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to use Node.js in no more than a couple of minutes after you add this upgrade to your account. You can choose the number of instances that you want to add to your account – one instance means one application using Node.js. In the new section that will show up in the Control Panel, you can insert the path to the .js file in your hosting account and choose if the file in question will be reachable via the shared IP address of the server or through a dedicated IP. Our platform will also specify a port for the connection. You will be able to terminate or to restart each instance separately, if it is necessary.

Node.js in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated plans include Node.js, so in case you wish to run any real-time application on our leading-edge cloud website hosting platform, you’ll be able to use the power that the system can offer you with just a few clicks of the mouse in your Hepsia Control Panel. This service is upgradeable, so in case you want to use Node.js for different websites, you’ll be able to choose the number of available instances, one instance being one application. Using the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-navigate GUI, you’ll have to indicate the location of the .js file for every instance and to select if Node.js will use a dedicated IP or the physical server’s shared one. Our platform will assign a randomly generated port number to access your app and you will find it in the corresponding Control Panel section. Hepsia will also permit you to view the output of each of your applications or to terminate/restart each instance separately.

Node.js in VPS Servers

Node.js is included by default with each and every VPS server that comes with the Hepsia website hosting Control Panel and involves no constraints concerning the number of sites that can use it at any particular moment. This makes our VPS plans an ideal option for hosting multiple real-time script-driven web applications and for making the most of each of them. The Hepsia Control Panel is user-friendly enough even for users with no prior experience, so if you’d like to enable Node.js for any application, it won’t take more than a couple of clicks of the mouse to do it. You’ll just need to indicate the path to the given .js file and to choose whether Node.js will use the server’s shared IP or a dedicated one. Our platform will also assign a given port number that will be used to access the .js file. After that, you will be all set and will be able to use the full potential of your real-time apps. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to check the apps’ output and to restart or to shut down any of your instances using quick-access controls.

Node.js in Dedicated Servers

You’ll be able to use Node.js with your real-time, script-powered software applications at no additional fee in case you obtain any of our dedicated web hosting plans and select the Hepsia hosting Control Panel on the order page. The Node.js instances can be administered from the Node.js section of the Hepsia CP via an easy-to-navigate graphical interface, which will enable you to start/terminate/restart any instance or to see the output of the app which uses it with only one click of the mouse. Even if you’re not very experienced, you’ll be able to use the platform, since all you will have to do to activate it is add the path to the .js file and pick the IP that will be used to access the latter – a shared or a dedicated one. A randomly generated port will be set automatically as well and you’ll notice the upsides of running Node.js straight away. By mixing the Node.js platform with the power of our dedicated servers, you can take advantage of the full potential of your apps and to get the best conceivable performance.