Node.js is an innovative event-driven system, which is used to create scalable web applications. It’s built with Google's V8 JavaScript Engine and it handles requests and responses between a server and a huge number of Internet users more efficiently than any conventional system. What makes Node.js unique is the fact that in contrast to conventional platforms which process the information in huge hunks, it handles everything in little bits. As an illustration, when a user needs to fill out a few fields on a website, Node.js processes the information from the first field as soon as it’s typed, utilizing the server processing time more efficiently. In comparison, conventional systems wait for all the fields to be filled out and while the info from them is being processed, requests from other users remain in the queue. The difference may be insignificant for one single user, but it indeed does make a difference when a huge number of users are browsing a site at once. Several examples of Internet sites where Node.js can be applied are dining reservation portals, live chat rooms or interactive browser video game portals, in other words websites that need quick real-time communication.

Node.js in Hosting

If you host an Internet application on our avant-garde cloud platform and you want to try Node.js, you will be able to add it to your hosting account irrespective of the hosting package that you are using. You can make this from the Upgrades section in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to take advantage of Node.js in no more than a couple of minutes after you add this upgrade to your account. You’ll be able to select the number of instances that you want to add to your account – one instance means that one application will be using Node.js. In the new section that will show up in the Control Panel, you can specify the path to the .js file in your web hosting account and select if that file will be accessible through the shared IP of the server or through a dedicated IP. Our platform will also set a port number for the connection. You will be able to cancel or to reboot each instance separately, in case it’s needed.

Node.js in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All our Linux semi-dedicated hosting support Node.js, so if you want to host any real-time application on our cutting-edge cloud website hosting platform, you can make full use of the power that Node.js can offer you with only several mouse clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel. This service is upgradeable, so in case you wish to use Node.js for multiple sites, you’ll be able to choose the number of available instances, one instance being one application. Through the Hepsia Control Panel’s easy-to-work-with interface, you will have to indicate the path to the .js file for each instance and to choose whether Node.js will use a dedicated IP address or the physical server’s shared one. Our platform will allocate a random port to access your application and you will find it in the corresponding section of the Control Panel. The Hepsia Control Panel will also enable you to see the output of each of your apps or to delete/restart each instance independently.

Node.js in Dedicated Hosting

Node.js is offered with all Linux dedicated hosting on which our in-house built Hepsia Control Panel is installed. The latter offers a very intuitive and easy-to-navigate graphical interface, so even if you have never worked with Node.js before, you’ll be able to uncover its true potential in just a couple of simple steps. As soon as you have uploaded the app’s content, you will need to add the directory path to the given .js files that will use Node.js and to pick the IP that they’ll use (shared or dedicated), whereas our system will assign a random port that will be used to access these files. There isn’t any restriction on the total number of Node.js instances that you can enable and use at the same time and you’ll exert total command over them through the Hepsia Control Panel – you will be able to get new ones or to stop/restart existing ones, to check the output log for each application, and so on.