Node.js is an avant-garde, event-driven asynchronous input/output system meant for sites that support interactive communication. Several examples of such sites would be online browser-based game portals, web-based chat rooms or hotel booking portals. Node.js processes the information exchanged between the Internet site and its users in small bits, which enhances the speed and the overall performance of the website significantly. When a certain form with three boxes should be filled out by a specific user, for instance, usually all three boxes should be filled and their entire content is then delivered as one big chunk of information to the web server. With Node.js, the content of the first box is processed once it is inserted, before the user types anything in the second one. In this way, much more information can be processed much faster and more efficiently in contrast with any traditional system, which can have a significant influence on the website’s performance. Node.js is already being used by many of the top IT firms like Microsoft and Yahoo.

Node.js in Shared Hosting

If you host a web application on our cutting-edge cloud platform and you would like to try Node.js, you’ll be able to add it to your web hosting account regardless of the shared hosting plan 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 few minutes after you add this feature to the account. You’ll be able to choose the number of instances that you would like 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 enter the path to the .js file in your hosting account and choose whether the file in question will be reachable via the shared IP address of the server or via a dedicated IP. Our platform will also select a port for the connection. You’ll be able to switch off or to reboot each instance independently, if required.