Node.js is an avant-garde, open-source, event-driven, asynchronous I/O platform intended for websites which offer interactive communication. Several examples of such sites are web-based browser game portals, online chat rooms or accommodation reservation portals. Node.js handles the information exchanged between the website and its visitors in little bits, which improves the speed and the overall performance of the website significantly. If a certain form with three boxes is expected to be filled out by a particular 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 server. With Node.js, the first box’s content is processed the moment it is entered, before the user types anything in the second one. In this way, much more information can be handled much faster and more effectively in comparison to any other system, which can exert a serious effect on the overall performance of the site. Node.js is already being employed by some of the biggest IT corporations like Yahoo and Microsoft.

Node.js in Hosting

When you host a web application on our avant-garde cloud hosting platform and you’d like to try Node.js, you will be able to add it to your web hosting account regardless of the hosting plan that you are using. You can make this via the Upgrades menu in the Hepsia Control Panel and you’ll be able to use Node.js in no more than a few minutes after you add this service to the account. You will be able to choose how many instances you want to add to your account – one instance means one application using Node.js. In the new section that will appear in the Control Panel, you can add the path to the .js file in your hosting account and choose if that file will be accessible through the shared IP of the physical server or through a dedicated IP. Our platform will also specify a port number for the connection. You’ll be able to shut down or to restart each instance independently, if it is needed.

Node.js in Semi-dedicated Servers

With a semi-dedicated server from our company, you can make use of all the advantages that the Node.js platform has, as it’s comes with all our semi-dedicated hosting packages and you can add it to your account with a couple of clicks of the mouse from the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel – the semi-dedicated account administration tool that is included with every semi-dedicated server. In case you would like to employ Node.js for different Internet applications, you can select the number of instances which the platform will use when you’re adding this service to your plan. After that, you will have to indicate the path to the .js file in your semi-dedicated account for each instance. You can do this in the new menu that will appear in the Control Panel after you add the upgrade and in the meantime, you can also choose if the path to the particular application should go through a dedicated IP address – in case you have one, or through the server’s shared IP. Each and every instance that you add can be restarted or removed separately and you can check the output of your applications with only a few mouse clicks.

Node.js in VPS Servers

Node.js is included as standard with each and every VPS server that is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and imposes no constraints when it comes to the number of sites that can use it at any given time. This makes our VPS plans an ideal option for running multiple real-time script-driven apps and for taking full advantage of them. Hepsia is intuitive enough even for individuals without any previous experience, so if you wish to set up Node.js for any application, it won’t take more than a few mouse clicks to do it. You’ll only need to indicate the folder path to the .js file in question and to choose if Node.js will use the server’s shared IP address or a dedicated one. Our platform will also assign a given port that will be used to access the .js file. Right after that, you will be all set and ready to make use of the full potential of your real-time apps. Hepsia will permit you to view the apps’ output and to restart or to terminate any of your instances using fast-access controls.

Node.js in Dedicated Servers

Node.js is available with all dedicated web hosting plans on which our in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel is installed. The latter has a very simple and easy-to-navigate graphical interface, so even if you’ve never used the Node.js platform before, you will be able to uncover its full potential in only a couple of simple steps. As soon as you’ve uploaded the application’s content, you will need to indicate the folder path to the respective .js files that will use Node.js and to pick the IP which they will use (shared or dedicated), while our system will select a randomly generated port number that will be used to access the files in question. There’s no limitation as to the total amount of instances that you can enable and use simultaneously and you will have full command over them through the Hepsia Control Panel – you will be able to get new ones or to discontinue/restart existing ones, to check the output log for each application, and many others.