Node.js is an open-source, event-driven runtime environment, which uses the Google V8 JavaScript engine. It is used for scalable web apps that need live interaction between a server and the online users and can tremendously accelerate the performance of any site that’s using it. Node.js is designed to handle HTTP web requests and responses and incessantly provides tiny bits of info. For example, if a new user fills in a signup form, the moment any info is entered in one of the boxes, it is forwarded to the server even if the rest of the boxes are not filled and the user hasn’t clicked any button, so the info is processed a lot faster. In comparison, other systems wait for the entire form to be filled out and one huge chunk of information is then forwarded to the server. Regardless of how tiny the difference in the processing time may be, things change in case the website expands and there’re plenty of persons using it at the same time. Node.js can be used by online booking portals, real-time browser games or online chat applications, for example, and lots of companies, including Yahoo, eBay and LinkedIn, have already included it in their services.

Node.js in Web Hosting

All Linux web hosting offered by us support Node.js and you are able to add this advanced event-driven platform to your shared hosting account using the Add Services/Upgrades menu in your Hepsia Control Panel. You’ll be able to select the number of instances for this specific upgrade, in other words how many separate websites/platforms will use Node.js at once, and you can get as many instances as you like. Hepsia will also enable you to specify the location of your .js application and to select whether you’ll use a dedicated IP address or the physical server’s shared one. Accessing Node.js will be possible using a random port designated by our cloud system. In addition, you can stop or reboot any instance that you’ve created, change the location of the .js application or see the output of the active instances with just several clicks of the mouse from your web hosting Control Panel using an extremely intuitive GUI.

Node.js in Semi-dedicated Servers

With a semi-dedicated server from us, you can use all the benefits that the Node.js event-driven platform has, because it’s comes with all our semi-dedicated hosting packages and you’re able to add it to your semi-dedicated account with several clicks from the Hepsia hosting Control Panel – the account management tool that comes with each and every semi-dedicated server. In case you wish to employ Node.js for multiple web-based apps, you can select the amount of instances that the platform will use when you are adding this service to your semi-dedicated plan. Then, you’ll have to insert the location of the .js file in your semi-dedicated account for each instance. This can be done in the new menu that will appear in the Hepsia Control Panel after you order the upgrade and during the process, you can also choose whether the access path to the specific app should go through a dedicated IP address – if you’ve got one, or through the physical server’s shared IP. Each and every instance that you activate can be rebooted or shut down separately and you can view your apps’ output with only a couple of clicks of the mouse.

Node.js in VPS Servers

All VPS servers that are ordered with our custom-developed Hepsia Control Panel include Node.js by default and you can take advantage of this platform for each application that you run on the VPS. As we have not set any limit on how many instances you can set up, you can make use of the power of our VPSs and mix it with the full potential of Node.js. The setup is done via the Hepsia Control Panel’s simple-to-use, point-and-click interface, so even if you are not tech-savvy, you will not come across any problems while working with the Node.js platform. You will just have to specify the folder path in the account to the .js file that will use Node.js and to select if it will use a shared or a dedicated IP. Furthermore, our system will also set a port to access the file and you will be able to see it in the corresponding Control Panel section. With only one click, you’ll be able to view the output of your applications and to deactivate or to reboot any Node.js instance hosted on the VPS server.

Node.js in Dedicated Servers

Node.js is available with all Linux dedicated servers that are ordered with the Hepsia Control Panel, so you’ll be able to make use of the event-driven platform as soon as your server is assembled. Since the Hepsia Control Panel is amazingly simple to work with, you’ll be able to make that without coming across any difficulty, even if you have not worked with Node.js before, since everything that you will have 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 Internet sites. You can set up as many Node.js instances as you need on our ultra-powerful dedicated servers and each of them can be managed independently – you’ll be able to start, to reboot or to remove it, to view the output of the app that uses it, etc. You can do this via the easy-to-use, point & click Hepsia Control Panel, so you can take full advantage of the power of Node.js without effort.