Node.js is an advanced, event-driven I/O system built for sites that offer real-time interaction. A few examples of such websites would be online browser game portals, web-based chat rooms or hotel reservation portals. Node.js processes the information exchanged between the site and its visitors in small bits, which accelerates the speed and the performance of the site tremendously. If a certain form with 3 boxes has to be filled out by a specific user, for example, usually all three boxes should be filled out and the whole content is then sent as one sizeable chunk of information to the server. With Node.js, the content of the first box is processed as soon as it is entered, before the user types anything in the second one. Thus, a lot more information can be processed much faster and more efficiently compared to any traditional platform, which can have a huge effect on the site’s overall performance. Node.js is already being used by many of the top IT firms such as Yahoo and Microsoft.

Node.js in Shared Web Hosting

As Node.js is available on our avant-garde cloud platform, you will be able to add it to your shared account and to use it for any web app that you’ve got, regardless of which shared web hosting package you’ve chosen during the registration process. The Upgrades section in the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes bundled with all accounts, will permit you to pick the number of instances that you’d like to have – this is the number of the web apps that will use Node.js. Several minutes later, you will be able to insert the path to the app, i.e. the location of the .js file in your shared account, as well as to pick the IP to receive access to the file – a dedicated IP or the server’s shared IP. In the new Node.js menu that will appear in the Control Panel, you’ll be able to restart an instance or to remove it in case you do not require it any longer. You will also receive access to the output code with just one click.

Node.js in Dedicated Servers

Node.js is available with all dedicated web hosting plans that are ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you will be able to make the most of the platform once your physical machine is assembled. As the Hepsia Control Panel is amazingly easy to use, you’ll be able to do that without the need to deal with any predicaments, even if you have never used the Node.js platform before, as everything that you will have to do on your end is define the location of the .js file that will use Node.js and the IP address that will be used to access this file. The latter can be a dedicated one or can be shared with other web sites. You can activate as many Node.js instances as you like on our really powerful servers and each instance can be controlled independently – you’ll be able to start, to restart or to delete it, to check the output of the app using it, etc. This can be done via the user-friendly, point & click Hepsia Control Panel, so you can make the most of the power of the Node.js platform with no effort.