Node.js hosting on a server of your own

What Node.js is

Node.js is a runtime that executes JavaScript outside a browser, on a server. It is what lets a team write both halves of an application in one language, and its event-driven design means a single process can hold a very large number of open connections at once rather than dedicating a thread to each one.

Why teams build on Node.js

Node.js is the natural home for anything that talks constantly rather than occasionally — APIs, real-time features, chat, dashboards that update themselves, and the server side of a React, Next.js, Vue or Angular application. It also has, in npm, by far the largest package ecosystem of any runtime, so most of what you need already exists and is maintained.

What you get with the server

• The whole machine, with root access — not a share of one. A Node process that needs to hold thousands of connections open, or to use the memory you paid for, is not competing with anybody else's site for it.
• You choose the operating system and, if you want one, a ready stack (Docker or Kubernetes) when the server is built, and it is recorded against the machine — so the server you ordered is the server you get.
• Automatic backups are one switch away, when you order or later: a copy every day, the last seven kept, so a bad deploy is something you roll back rather than something you rebuild.
• You choose the data centre, and the range runs in eight of them across North America, Europe and Asia — so the server sits near the users or the database it talks to most.

Plans and pricing

Ten sizes, from a single core up to forty-eight. Every one is a whole machine — the resources on the card are yours, not a share of somebody else's.

Where to go next

The pages people usually read after this one — the platform underneath, the rest of the range, and the help you get once you are here.

• WP Care, included freeUpdates, daily backups, malware scanning and support — the list a WordPress care plan charges a monthly fee for, included with hosting at no extra cost.
• Managed cloud serversThe full range of machines, every size and what each one costs.
• The shared platformWhat every managed plan runs on — the specification, the allowances and the tools.
• One-click applicationsEverything else you can install in a click, with a page for each of the popular ones.
• Move an existing siteWe copy the site and map the old URLs to the new ones, so the rankings come with it.
• Site speed-upA hands-on engineering pass over one site: caching, images, fonts and the database.
• The command lineDeploy, clone and manage sites from your terminal or your build pipeline.
• The developer platformThe API, the webhooks and the SDKs — everything the dashboard does, scripted.
• Knowledge baseGuides for setup, DNS, email, SSL and everything after you are live.

Questions people ask before they buy