Question posted in 
I’ve developed a wallpaper app whose backend is written in node.js . Everything in development was fine then today I bought a vps server with cpanel for 3 months from a hosting service provider .But I’m a complete beginner in server management so now how to run this node.js script in my ftp server . Can anyone please guide me to run node.js script on server ?
It may sound like off-topic but please do help me to fix my problem.
I’m a complete beginner so please do excuse me if my question is foolish.
2
Answers
I think there’s no support for using Node.js with cPanel. But I can recommend you to use for example Heroku for testing or hobby development. Heroku is free, very simple and cool for small projects.
If it’s just a simple, single node.js script, I’d recommend running this as a lambda function – basically, use a service that will run this script at a given HTTP endpoint without needing to manage a server. This can be free depending on how much it’s used. For example, here are some places to run it:
As CenyGG suggested, Heroku is also a great place to do this and will be free if you don’t need the app to be live 24/7 (it will go to sleep and take a few seconds to “wake up” if it hasn’t been used in a while).