Must have been a propagation issue. Corrected itself overnight and now both my personal sites come up properly. One more site to move to it. It’s early yet but I’d give this host an 8/10 so far. Support has been very responsive.
Probably good enough for basic sites. Now to get my feet wet with Node.js.
Hey @brad, its been about a week and wanted to check in to see how things were going with this hosting. Interested to see if you have hit any snags, issues, bugs with using Node.js with them.
I haven’t had a chance to dive into Node.js yet as I have never done anything in Node.js yet. So I have a little learning to do. Hope to watch some videos this weekend.
But other than that, so far so good. The support is very quick to respond.
I registered with them when you first spotted them, intending to do a node setup video but time constraints got in the way.
If there is a need I will do one on return from holiday.
Started going through your videos this morning. I think it would be a valuable video for people like myself that use any cPanel hosting and regular FTP.
Just trying to set up a simple websockets demo to see if that is supported. That would be the real only reason for me to use Node.
@brad, I just spent the weekend going through @Hyperbytes’s videos as a refresher since a lot has changed since the first time I set up a site from scratch in Wappler.
I am not sure which set of videos you are watching, but I recommend
@Hyperbytes did an incredible job of going through things step by step and I found myself giggling when an error popped up because he sounded like me!
I ask about the hosting because I still feel that Amazon and Digital Ocean and the like are outside my financial capabilities, so I am a little scared to move over to them. I am just not used to monthly charges or charges based on usage.
On the flip side, the shared services I have used have been a mixed bag. Some restrict what version of Nodejs they support, while others restrict what modules can be used and deployed, leaving my Nodejs projects unfinished.
Node was a bit of a curve to get working. Initially caused by me not knowing what I am doing. But the biggest snag was that the mysql package does not get installed by Wappler. But with great help from this community it was solved.
Even WebSockets are supported and working. So indeed, my opinion is, this seems to be a suitable host for small projects. I'm pretty happy with it so far.
Just a heads up, this kind of package is pretty common in the world of share cPanel hosting if you aren’t looking at the super big guys who spend more on advertising (GoDaddy, etc).
If a cPanel host says they are running on Litespeed, they probably offer NodeJS, as this is where the support comes from (though a few might disable the option). Namecheap, which is very well known, offers a similar plan for £1.55/mo (first year) and supports NodeJS. It should be worth noting they do not allow external connections for MySQL though, so you’ll have to tunnel if you want to work directly off their SQL servers.
Very basic question as I’m new to Node. I’m currently hosting my Node site on Heroku which has the deploy option in Wappler. If I switched to Orange host, how would I deploy the site?
Thanks. Are you still using them and is it all good? Heroku is charging me $12/month for what is basically a hobby site at the moment so would like to get that cost down if possible.
I’m just using it for a couple hobby sites and a Node Testing Sandbox. I have no problems at all so far. Setting up Node in cPanel was a bit of a challenge for me as I never did it before. But with help from this forum I got it running easily enough.