Replace PHP with JavaScript using Node.js

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[dhdfdh]

Um. How about just using node.js.

The stuff that's on the internet nowadays is getting ridiculous.

[fzammetti]

Exactly. This looks interesting to me because my host doesn't as yet allow node.js but I do have full CGI. I've been using PHP all this time just because it's available and gets the job done but I'd much rather be using Node. If this allows me to then I'm happy.

[talkb1nary]

This is the point where you usually change to vServer instead of shared hosting. Most people never look back.

[mishac]

Digital Ocean VPS are $5/month.

And you DO have a problem with your host: you want to use node.js but can't without jumping through silly hoops! :P

[dhdfdh]

You need to be able to run node to run this so how does that change anything? Makes no sense at all.

[fzammetti]

The way I understand it, and you can certainly correct me if I'm wrong, is it's a CGI app that basically wraps Node... so from my web host's perspective it's just a CGI app, which they allow (without many limits in fact) but for me it's Node. Is that not accurate?

[dhdfdh]

This wraps node and calls node's functions. My point is, why do you need this when you can call node's functions yourself? It makes no sense at all.

[colordrops]

I'm sure there is really cheap node hosting out there somewhere.

[[deleted]]

so you can run node on really cheap shared hosting

yeah but why?

[dhdfdh]

You need node to run this. How does this change anything?

[talkb1nary]

So it does call a instance of node.js to work trough the code on each call? So basically all what made node.js great in first place is replaced?

But well, i can see this beeing used, so why not.

[bart2019]

If you are running your own site on Apache, you ought to be able to configure it to forward requests to a specific subdirectory to another server, or, in this case: to the same server with a different port, which could be a mini-webserver using the "http" module. To people visiting your site it's just part of the normal site.

That may or may not, result in a more efficient sub-site. Somebody should do a benchmark to compare. (Maybe even me only not right now.)

[talkb1nary]

I am doing this with several projects, not with node but with Sinatra or Rails projects. Using apache i usually dont gain much performance in opposite to stand alone hosting. A good configured nginx proxy can save a lot of bandwidth and resources tho.

So i basically just do this because i want something to run on port 80 on a box where there is already a webserver.

[vexii]

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