Node.js is an event-driven runtime system, which uses the Google V8 JavaScript engine. It’s used for scalable web apps that need real-time communication between a web server and the online users and can considerably enhance the overall performance of any site that uses it. Node.js is intended to handle HTTP web requests and responses and incessantly provides tiny amounts of information. For example, if a new user fills in a registration form, the second any info is entered in one of the fields, it is forwarded to the server even if the remaining boxes are not filled out and the user hasn’t clicked any button, so the information is processed much faster. In comparison, traditional systems wait for the whole form to be filled out and one large hunk of information is then sent to the server. No matter how small the difference in the information processing speed may be, circumstances change if the Internet site grows bigger and there’re many persons using it at the same time. Node.js can be used by booking portals, real-time browser-based video games or live chat applications, for example, and lots of corporations, including eBay, Yahoo and LinkedIn, have already included it in their services.

Node.js in Shared Hosting

Since Node.js is present on our innovative cloud web hosting platform, you will be able to add it to your account and to use it for any web-based application that you have, regardless of which shared hosting plan you’ve chosen upon signup. The Upgrades menu in the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all shared website hosting account, will permit you to choose the number of instances that you’d like to activate – this is the number of the web apps that will use Node.js. Several minutes later, you can enter the path to the application, i.e. the location of the .js file in your account, as well as to choose the IP address to get access to the file – a dedicated IP or the server’s shared IP. In the new Node.js section that will appear in the Control Panel, you can reboot an instance or to deactivate it if you no longer need it. You will also be granted access to the output code with just a single click.

Node.js in Semi-dedicated Servers

All our semi-dedicated hosting plans support Node.js, so in case you want to run any real-time application on our avant-garde cloud hosting platform, you will be able to make full use of the power that Node.js can give you with only several clicks of the mouse in your Hepsia Control Panel. The feature is upgradeable, so if you wish to use Node.js for multiple sites, you’ll be able to select the amount of available instances, one instance being one application. Through the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-navigate GUI, you will need to indicate the path to the .js file for every instance and to choose if Node.js will use a dedicated IP address or the server’s shared IP. Our cloud platform will choose a random port number to access your app and you’ll find it in the corresponding section of the Control Panel. The Hepsia Control Panel will also allow you to check the output of any of your apps or to stop/reboot each instance separately.

Node.js in Dedicated Servers

Node.js is included with all dedicated web hosting plans that are ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you will be able to make full use of this event-driven platform as soon as your server is assembled. As the Hepsia Control Panel is rather easy to use, you will be able to do that without experiencing any difficulty, even if you’ve never worked with the Node.js platform before, as everything that you will need to do on your end is add the directory path to the .js file that will use the platform and the IP that will be used to access the file. The latter can be a dedicated IP or can be shared with other websites. You can manage as many instances as you like on our ultra-powerful servers and each instance can be controlled independently – you will be able to start, to restart or to deactivate it, to check the output of the application using it, etc. This can be done via the easy-to-work-with, point-and-click Hepsia Control Panel, so you can make use of the power of Node.js with no effort.