Node.js is a cutting-edge event-driven system, which is used to develop scalable Internet applications. It’s built with the Google V8 JavaScript engine and it handles requests and responses between a web server and an immense number of users much more efficiently than any conventional platform. What makes Node.js exceptional is the fact that in difference between conventional platforms that handle the info in sizeable chunks, it handles everything in little bits. For example, when a user needs to fill in a couple of fields on a website, Node.js handles the info in the first field the moment it’s inserted, utilizing the server processing time more efficiently. In contrast, conventional platforms wait for all the fields to be filled out and while the info in them is being processed, requests from other users remain in the queue. The difference may be insignificant for one single person, but it truly does make a difference when an immense number of people are navigating a site at the same time. A few instances of websites where Node.js can be employed are dining reservation portals, online chat rooms or interactive browser video game portals, in other words sites that support fast live communication.
Node.js in Hosting
If you host an Internet app on our advanced cloud hosting platform and you want to try Node.js, you’ll be able to add it to your web hosting account regardless of the hosting plan that you use. This can be done via the Upgrades menu in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to use Node.js in no more than several minutes after you add this service to the account. You can select how many instances you would like to add to the account – one instance means one application using Node.js. In the new section that will appear in the Control Panel, you can specify the path to the .js file in your hosting account and select whether that file will be reachable via the shared IP address of the physical server or via a dedicated IP. Our platform will also specify a port for the connection. You’ll be able to switch off or to restart each instance independently, if it is required.
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’ll be able to make use of the event-driven platform once your physical server is set up. Since Hepsia is very intuitive, you’ll be able to do that without any problem, even if you haven’t used the Node.js platform before, since everything that you will need to do on your end is include the location of the .js file that will use Node.js and the IP that will be used to access this file. The latter can be a dedicated IP or can be shared with other Internet sites. You can manage as many Node.js instances as you like on our unbelievably powerful dedicated machines and each of them can be controlled independently – you will be able to start, to reboot or to stop it, to check the output of the application that uses it, etc. This can be done through the user-friendly, point ‘n’ click Hepsia Control Panel, so you can make full use of the power of the Node.js platform without efforts.