Node.js is an open-source, event-driven runtime system built with Google's V8 JavaScript Engine. It’s used by scalable web apps that require real-time interaction between a web server and the online users and can noticeably accelerate the overall performance of any Internet site that uses it. Node.js is designed to handle HTTP requests and responses and ceaselessly delivers tiny amounts of info. For instance, if a new user fills in a registration form, the moment any information is entered in any of the boxes, it is submitted to the server even if the rest of the fields are not filled out and the user has not clicked on any button, so the information is processed much faster. In comparison, other systems wait for the entire form to be filled out and one sizeable hunk of information is then sent to the server. Irrespective of how tiny the difference in the processing time may be, circumstances change in case the site grows bigger and there’re plenty of persons using it simultaneously. Node.js can be used by online reservation portals, interactive web browser games or instant messengers, for example, and a lot of corporations, among them LinkedIn, eBay and Yahoo, have already integrated it into their services.
Node.js in Shared Hosting
If you host an Internet app on our advanced cloud hosting 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 package that you’re using. You can make this through the Upgrades section in the Hepsia 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 service to the account. You’ll be able to select the number of instances that you want to add to your account – one instance means that one app will be using Node.js. In the new section that will show up in the Control Panel, you can write the path to the .js file in your web hosting account and choose if the file in question will be accessible through the shared IP address of the server or through a dedicated IP. Our platform will also select a port number for the connection. You’ll be able to disable or to reboot each instance independently, in case it’s required.
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 event-driven platform has, as it’s comes with all our semi-dedicated server plans and you’re able to add it to your semi-dedicated account with several clicks of the mouse from the Hepsia web hosting Control Panel – the semi-dedicated account administration tool that’s included with each semi-dedicated server. In case you wish to employ Node.js for different Internet applications, you can pick the number of instances which the platform will use when you’re adding this feature to your plan. Then, you will need to insert the location of the .js file in your account for each instance. This can be done in the new section that will appear in the Control Panel after you add the upgrade and in the meantime, you can also choose whether the path to the specific application will go through a dedicated IP – in case you’ve got one, or through the server’s shared IP address. Each and every instance that you activate can be rebooted or shut down separately and you can check your applications’ output with just a couple of clicks.
Node.js in VPS Servers
Node.js is offered as standard with each and every VPS server that is ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and involves no constraints regarding the number of web sites that can use it at any given moment. This makes our Virtual Private Server plans an optimal solution for building numerous real-time script-powered applications and for taking full advantage of each of them. The Hepsia Control Panel is intuitive enough even for people without any previous experience, so if you would like to activate Node.js for any app, it will not take more than several mouse clicks to do it. You’ll only have to enter the folder path to the given .js file and to choose whether Node.js will use the server’s shared IP or a dedicated one. Our system will also assign a certain port that will be used to access the .js file. Right after that, you’ll be all set and ready to make use of the full potential of your real-time applications. The Hepsia Control Panel will allow you to check the output of the apps and to reboot or to shut down any of your instances using fast-access buttons.
Node.js in Dedicated Servers
Node.js comes with all dedicated web hosting plans that are ordered with the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, so you will be able to make full use of the platform as soon as your dedicated machine is set up. Since Hepsia is pretty user-friendly, you’ll be able to make that without any problem, even if you have never worked with Node.js before, since everything that you’ll need to do on your end is include the folder path to 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 sites. You can create as many instances as you want on our really powerful machines and each of them can be controlled independently – you will be able to start, to restart or to remove it, to see the output of the app that uses it, etc. This can be done through the simple-to-work-with, point ‘n’ click Hepsia Control Panel, so you can make full use of the power of the Node.js platform with no effort.