Node.js on Shared Hosting (Part 1)

Published on: January 11, 2021

If you read my previous blog post, you know I’ve been experimenting with CDNs & VPS Servers. This time, I wanted to use Node.js on the Hostinger’s hosting.

Yeah, the same Cloud Global Plan, but as all the support exec. guys say, you cannot normally use Node.js on a server that does not give you root access. So here’s a complete info. about how I installed Node.js on the Cloud Global plan which was not a VPS Server.

Pre-requisites => SSH Access in you cPanel / hPanel.
Enable the SSH Access in the panel & copy the ssh command (should be like: ssh -p PORT userId@IpAddress)

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Alrighty then, let’s go.

• Open terminal & paste SSH command.

• Use command cd ~

• Type below command and hit Enter -

  wget -qO- https://cdn.rawgit.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | bash

• Then type the command -

  export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
  [ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
  [ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"

• Then install node via nvm -

  nvm install node
  nvm use node

  The above steps should show this output -

  

Give yourself a pat on the back,
You successfully installed Node.js on your Server.

In the next blog post,
I’ll show a working example of running a Node.js Express App on the same server.