Node.js is an open-source, event-driven runtime system built with the Google V8 JavaScript engine. It’s used by scalable web apps that require live communication between a web server and the worldwide web users and can significantly accelerate the overall performance of any Internet site that uses it. Node.js is intended to handle HTTP requests and responses and constantly supplies little amounts of info. For instance, if a new user fills a registration form, as soon as any information is inserted in any of the boxes, it is forwarded to the server even if the other boxes are not filled and the user hasn’t clicked on any button, so the information is processed a lot faster. In comparison, traditional systems wait for the entire form to be filled out and one large hunk of information is then submitted to the server. Regardless of how tiny the difference in the processing speed may be, things change if the Internet site grows bigger and there’re many users using it at the same time. Node.js can be used by online booking portals, real-time web browser video games or online chat systems, for example, and plenty of corporations, including eBay, LinkedIn and Yahoo, have already implemented it in their services.

Node.js in Cloud Web Hosting

Since Node.js is available on our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform, you’ll be able to add it to your shared hosting account and to use it for any web-based app that you’ve got, regardless of which cloud web hosting package you’ve chosen upon registration. The Upgrades section in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all shared hosting accounts, will allow you to pick the number of instances that you wish to get – this is the number of the web applications that will use Node.js. A few minutes afterwards, you can add the path to the app, i.e. the location of the .js file in your shared website hosting account, as well as to choose the IP to obtain access to the file – a dedicated IP or the physical server’s shared IP. In the new Node.js menu that will appear in the Control Panel, you will be able to restart an instance or to cancel it if you no longer need it. You’ll also get access to the output code with only one click.