Node.js is a leading-edge, event-driven asynchronous I/O system meant for sites which support live interaction. Several instances of such websites are web-based browser video game portals, online chat rooms or hotel reservation portals. Node.js handles the info transmitted between the website and its visitors in small bits, which boosts the loading speed and the performance of the site considerably. If some form with 3 boxes is expected to be filled out by a particular user, for instance, ordinarily all three boxes should be filled out and the entire content is then sent as one giant hunk of information to the web server. With Node.js, the content of the first box is processed the moment it is entered, before the user writes anything in the second box. Therefore, a lot more info can be handled a lot faster and more efficiently as opposed to any traditional platform, which can have a noticeable impact on the site’s performance. Node.js is already being employed by many of the largest IT companies such as Microsoft and Yahoo.
Node.js in Shared Hosting
As Node.js is available on our leading-edge cloud platform, you’ll be able to add it to your shared web hosting account and to utilize it for any web-based application that you have, irrespective of which shared hosting package you have selected upon signup. The Upgrades menu in the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with all web hosting accounts, will allow you to select the number of instances that you’d like to add – this is the number of the web applications that will use Node.js. Several minutes later, you can define the path to the app, in other words where the .js file will be located in your hosting account, as well as to select the IP to acquire access to that file – a dedicated IP address or the physical server’s shared IP. In the new Node.js section that will appear in the Hepsia Control Panel, you can reboot an instance or to deactivate it if you do not require it any longer. You will also be given access to the output code with just one click of the mouse.