- Predictable pricing comes for hosting web apps
- Easily upload apps from GitHub in our test
- Spend less time managing and more time building apps
Hostinger, one of the best web hosting providers, lowers the barrier to entry and provides predictable pricing for web apps – with new support for node.js in shared hosting plans. Traditionally, if you wanted to host a web app, you would have to use a VPS server or a platform that does not have a fixed pricing structure, leading to higher management costs and surprise bills.
Support rolled out for up to 10 node.js web apps on Cloud Startup plans in early December, and then up to 5 node.js web apps on the Business hosting plan. To host an app, you can manually upload files or upload them directly from GitHub with just a few clicks in the web hosting panel.
This way, users don’t have to manage the server configuration, such as installing and updating dependencies or setting up reverse proxies. Integration with GitHub also enables users to automatically redeploy when new commits are made. In a quick test, I uploaded a web app from GitHub – and within minutes it was working without any issues, and with no configuration required.
The new functionality comes at a time when modern developers and amateur coders are using ‘vibe coding’ to build and deploy faster. AI tools and platforms such as Cursor, Lovable, and Bolt often default to JavaScript and Node.js as the language of choice and use a serverless infrastructure that can result in unexpected fees when apps experience a spike in traffic.
Until now, shared servers have been built around websites that use PHP (which is what WordPress uses). PHP sites can sit idle on a server while not being used, allowing a single server to host multiple sites and allocating resources to specific sites that have more traffic than others. Node.js requires a website to use RAM all the time. Hostinger’s offering manages all these processes so users don’t have to.
In addition, PHP websites sit behind a web server such as Apache or Nginx that lets traffic through specific ports. Node.js requires a different system, which makes hosting multiple sites more complex, while also requiring more flexibility with server versions. A problem that until now has prevented hosts from providing predictable pricing and ease of use hosting for web applications.
Support for Node.js hosting, along with other leading advancements in hosting such as Kodee and Hostinger Horizons, is why I continue to recommend Hostinger as one of the best web hosting companies. Whether you want value for money, VPS server with an AI management tool, AI website building tools or simple hosting for WordPress or web apps – Hostinger has a solution.
