- Predictable pricing is offered for web application hosting
- Easily download apps from GitHub in our tests
- Spend less time managing and more time building apps
Hostinger, one of the best web hosting providers, lowers the barriers to entry and offers predictable pricing for web applications – with new support for node.js in shared hosting plans. Traditionally, if you want to host a web application, you have to use a VPS server or a platform that doesn’t have a flat-rate pricing structure, leading to higher management costs and surprising bills.
Support rolled out for up to 10 node.js web apps on Cloud Startup plans in early December, then up to 5 node.js web apps on the Business hosting plan. To host an app, you can manually upload files or download them directly from GitHub with a few clicks in the web hosting panel.
This way, users do not need to manage server configuration, such as installing and updating dependencies or setting up reverse proxies. The integration with GitHub also allows users to automatically redeploy when new commits are made. In a quick test, I downloaded a web app from GitHub – and within minutes it was running smoothly and with no configuration needed.
The new feature comes at a time when modern developers and amateur coders are using “dynamic coding” to build and deploy faster. AI tools and platforms like Cursor, Lovable, and Bolt often default to JavaScript and Node.js as their language of choice and use serverless infrastructure that can incur unexpected charges when applications experience a spike in traffic.
Until now, shared servers were built around websites using PHP (that’s what WordPress uses). PHP sites can sit idle on a server without being used, allowing a single server to host multiple sites, allocating resources to specific sites that have more traffic than others. Node.js requires a site to use RAM constantly. Hostinger’s offering handles all of these processes so users don’t have to.
Additionally, PHP sites sit behind a web server like Apache or Nginx, which lets traffic through specific ports. Node.js requires a different system that makes hosting multiple sites more complex while also requiring more flexibility with server versions. A problem that, until now, has prevented hosts from offering predictable pricing and easy-to-use hosting for web applications.
Support for Node.js hosting, along with other major hosting advancements like Kodee and Hostinger Horizons, is why I continue to recommend Hostinger as one of the best web hosting companies. Whether you want a great value VPS server with an AI management tool, AI website building tools, or simple hosting for WordPress or web applications, Hostinger has a solution.
