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On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 2:21 PM Eric Muyser <eric.muy...@gmail.com> wrote: > There's some logic problems with this. > > #1 - if you've actually got traffic, the performance bang for you buck of > a $6 VPS will outweigh the PHP hosting, request for request. > > #2 - If you don't have traffic, you can host it free on Heroku. You can > also deploy multiple apps behind a proxy on a single $8 heroku dyno. > > #3 - Google and Amazon offer free tier/trial boxes. > > #4 - PHP + LAMP stack isn't nearly as bad is it was. It's improved a lot > since even 2010. Switching back to PHP + Laravel isn't such a big deal. > > #5 - What do you need a node server for? Serverless or generated files > (using something like NUXT) satisfies a lot of use cases. I host many sites > on Github for free, generated with NUXT. If you need dynamic actions and > database then it should be an API, and going back to the per request cost > and performance, no way does PHP hosting outperform it. For the database, > I believe you can get one on Heroku free, or on lowest dyno. You can even > use Google Sheets as a database, technically, if you don't care about edge > servers. > > #6 - Use caching, so nothing is going to cost 10x more or you're doing > something wrong. Cloudflare even does it for free. > > Hope this gives you some ideas. > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 10:53 AM Leandro Azevedo < > leandro.azev...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> After years of learning and writting projects in NodeJS, I've just loved >> it. It is powerfull, portable and fit all my needs as a developer. >> >> However, after looking up the internet for *hosting a NodeJS application*, >> I stumble upon a big problem that seems to be global. >> >> All major web hosting services I've tried do not support NodeJS natively >> in their regular plans/packages. >> To run a NodeJS server I'd have to *hire a VPS service which costs at >> least 10x more* than regular PHP hosting. >> >> No matter how good NodeJS is. If it costs 10x more to be hosted online >> then it is time to move back to PHP. >> >> That is very sad. So long NodeJS. Back to the 90s. >> >> -- >> Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> New group rules: >> https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md >> Old group rules: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "nodejs" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/a4a1d916-4c26-4eba-bc00-4e5f57210226%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/a4a1d916-4c26-4eba-bc00-4e5f57210226%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > > *Eric Muyser* > > ericmuyser.com | 778-836-2150 | @ericmuyser > > -- *Eric Muyser* ericmuyser.com | 778-836-2150 | @ericmuyser -- Job board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ New group rules: https://gist.github.com/othiym23/9886289#file-moderation-policy-md Old group rules: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nodejs/CAGeTX1Z1%3DMkPsBhZTjwc1aoPeDTGMhOGf%2BKB4%2BPxDwSV8%2BTqYg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
