NodeJs on Shared Hosting (Part 1)

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

Yeah, the same Cloud Global Plan 😗,
but as all the support exec. guys say, you cannot normally use NodeJs on a server that does not give you root access.

So here’s a complete info. about how I installed NodeJs on the Cloud Global plan which is 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 something like: ssh -p PORT userId@IpAddress)


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 code should throw this output:




Give yourself a Pat on the back,
You have successfully installed
NodeJs on your Server!


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

Posted in Misc

Write a comment