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My goal is to create a chatting website. Not so much for the sake of the website, but for the experience so I know how; just something to work towards gradually. I tried long polling, but that always ends up pissing off the webhosts whose servers I'm using. I was told to use nodejs instead. I have some idea of what it is, but no idea how to use it.
I'm guessing that the reason I can't find the answer to this question anywhere is because of how obvious it is... to everyone else.
I've been looking around and all I see are tutorials on installing it on your server when you own the server. I know you can install forums on webhost's servers, so can you also install nodejs?
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The free Node. js hosting services are Heroku (free tier), Vercel (hobby free forever plan), and Cyclic. All these services can host your Node. js application for $0 a month a.k.a. absolutely and completely free.
Node. js is not supported on Shared and Cloud hosting packages. NOTE: If you want to use Node.
js application locally after closing the terminal or Application, to run the nodeJS application permanently. We use NPM modules such as forever or PM2 to ensure that a given script runs continuously. NPM is a Default Package manager for Node.
Node. js is a cross-platform runtime environment for JavaScript, which is free and open-sourced.
Yes. You can check the full listing at https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Node-Hosting to check each site but it does not categorize it by free hosting.. Some I know of, I personally use Heroku.
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