Node.js is a cutting-edge, open-source, event-driven, asynchronous input/output platform devised for websites that support live communication. Several examples of such websites are online browser-based game portals, web-based chat rooms or accommodation reservation portals. The platform processes the info transmitted between the website and its users in little bits, which accelerates the loading speed and the overall performance of the website substantially. If some form with three boxes is expected to be filled by a specific user, for instance, typically all three boxes should be filled and the entire content is then delivered as one huge hunk 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. Therefore, a lot more information can be handled a lot faster and more effectively in contrast to any other system, which can exert a tremendous impact on the site’s performance. Node.js is already being employed by some of the largest IT corporations like Yahoo and Microsoft.
Node.js in Cloud Hosting
As Node.js is present on our innovative cloud web hosting platform, you’ll be able to add it to your shared account and to utilize it for any web application that you have, irrespective of which cloud hosting package you’ve selected at signup. The Upgrades menu in the Hepsia Control Panel, which is offered with all shared website hosting account, will permit you to choose the number of instances that you would like to add – this is the number of the web apps that will use Node.js. Several minutes after that, you can insert the path to the app, in other words where the .js file will be located in your web hosting account, as well as to pick the IP to get access to the file – a dedicated IP or the physical server’s shared one. In the new Node.js section that will show up in the Hepsia Control Panel, you can restart an instance or to cancel it in case you no longer want it. You will also have access to the output code with just a single mouse click.