Node.js VPS
Node.js with an entire machine behind it
Run apps, APIs and bots on a root-access KVM VPS. Install any Node release, keep it alive with PM2 or Docker, and count on guaranteed CPU and RAM over NVMe storage — from $13.52/mo.
$9.99
where Node VPS pricing starts
Full root
run the machine your way
Any version
install whichever Node build you need
NVMe
fast storage on every tier
Why It Wins
What counts once launch day passes
Root access, no small print
Nothing on the box is fenced off. Add the Node build you want, the global CLIs, the compilers, and any system package the project happens to require.
Cores and memory, guaranteed
Your latency graphs stay clean when a neighbour gets busy, because KVM pins a fixed portion of CPU and RAM to the event loop and leaves it there.
DDoS protection included free
Hostile traffic is scrubbed out at the network edge before it ever touches your server, so APIs, sockets and bots keep answering through an attack.
A dedicated IPv4 of your own
Every server arrives with an IPv4 of its own, which brings a clean sender reputation, room for your own certificates, and webhook endpoints that stay put.
Booted in under a minute
Debian, CentOS or Ubuntu is up in under sixty seconds. Clone the repo, start the process, and traffic begins to flow.
NVMe storage on every tier
Every plan writes to NVMe, so an npm install lands quickly, builds hold their momentum, and database reads come back without a pause.
Full Control
Give yourself root and the runtime obeys
On shared hosting, the provider picks your Node version and roughly half the configuration decisions along with it. Root on a VPS lifts that ceiling clean off. Pull the exact release your app was built against through nvm, add the global CLIs and build tools you depend on, and supervise with PM2 or Docker however you see fit. The whole machine bends around your workflow.
- Genuine root, zero caveats
- Any Node.js release, installed by you
- Your pick of PM2 or Docker
- SSH straight in and deploy
Pricing
Node.js VPS tiers and pricing
From a first API to a busy realtime backend, every row promises the same: root access, NVMe storage and a dedicated IPv4.
1 Core Unmanaged VPS
Your starting line: a server that's all yours
$13.52/mo
the price never jumps at renewal
- vCPU cores
- 1
- RAM
- 1 GB DDR4
- SSD disk
- 25 GB
- Root access
- Full
- Full root access, no locked doors
- Runs on KVM virtualisation
- 24 Linux and BSD images ready to go
- London or Dallas - pick your data centre
- 1 Tbps+ DDoS filtering up front
- 20 Gbps uplink on every hypervisor
- SSD disk space included
- Bolt on cPanel whenever you want it
- Snapshot backups on demand
- Add extra SSD disks in seconds
- Reboot, rebuild and console from your panel
- No setup fee - deploys the moment you pay
- Humans on support 24/7, not bots
Orders complete over at Hosting Cheap, which handles billing for everything we sell.
2 Core Unmanaged VPS
Enough runway for a real workload
$20.28/mo
the price never jumps at renewal
- vCPU cores
- 2
- RAM
- 2 GB DDR4
- SSD disk
- 50 GB
- Root access
- Full
- Full root access, no locked doors
- Runs on KVM virtualisation
- 24 Linux and BSD images ready to go
- London or Dallas - pick your data centre
- 1 Tbps+ DDoS filtering up front
- 20 Gbps uplink on every hypervisor
- SSD disk space included
- Bolt on cPanel whenever you want it
- Snapshot backups on demand
- Add extra SSD disks in seconds
- Reboot, rebuild and console from your panel
- No setup fee - deploys the moment you pay
- Humans on support 24/7, not bots
Orders complete over at Hosting Cheap, which handles billing for everything we sell.
4 Core Unmanaged VPS
Built for busy apps and small fleets
$33.81/mo
the price never jumps at renewal
- vCPU cores
- 4
- RAM
- 4 GB DDR4
- SSD disk
- 75 GB
- Root access
- Full
- Full root access, no locked doors
- Runs on KVM virtualisation
- 24 Linux and BSD images ready to go
- London or Dallas - pick your data centre
- 1 Tbps+ DDoS filtering up front
- 20 Gbps uplink on every hypervisor
- SSD disk space included
- Bolt on cPanel whenever you want it
- Snapshot backups on demand
- Add extra SSD disks in seconds
- Reboot, rebuild and console from your panel
- No setup fee - deploys the moment you pay
- Humans on support 24/7, not bots
Orders complete over at Hosting Cheap, which handles billing for everything we sell.
6 Core Unmanaged VPS
For memory-hungry stacks that can't wait
$67.63/mo
the price never jumps at renewal
- vCPU cores
- 6
- RAM
- 8 GB DDR4
- SSD disk
- 100 GB
- Root access
- Full
- Full root access, no locked doors
- Runs on KVM virtualisation
- 24 Linux and BSD images ready to go
- London or Dallas - pick your data centre
- 1 Tbps+ DDoS filtering up front
- 20 Gbps uplink on every hypervisor
- SSD disk space included
- Bolt on cPanel whenever you want it
- Snapshot backups on demand
- Add extra SSD disks in seconds
- Reboot, rebuild and console from your panel
- No setup fee - deploys the moment you pay
- Humans on support 24/7, not bots
Orders complete over at Hosting Cheap, which handles billing for everything we sell.
8 Core Unmanaged VPS
Production-grade, flat out
$108.22/mo
the price never jumps at renewal
- vCPU cores
- 8
- RAM
- 16 GB DDR4
- SSD disk
- 200 GB
- Root access
- Full
- Full root access, no locked doors
- Runs on KVM virtualisation
- 24 Linux and BSD images ready to go
- London or Dallas - pick your data centre
- 1 Tbps+ DDoS filtering up front
- 20 Gbps uplink on every hypervisor
- SSD disk space included
- Bolt on cPanel whenever you want it
- Snapshot backups on demand
- Add extra SSD disks in seconds
- Reboot, rebuild and console from your panel
- No setup fee - deploys the moment you pay
- Humans on support 24/7, not bots
Orders complete over at Hosting Cheap, which handles billing for everything we sell.
10 Core Unmanaged VPS
Full throttle, sustained
$270.57/mo
the price never jumps at renewal
- vCPU cores
- 10
- RAM
- 32 GB DDR4
- SSD disk
- 400 GB
- Root access
- Full
- Full root access, no locked doors
- Runs on KVM virtualisation
- 24 Linux and BSD images ready to go
- London or Dallas - pick your data centre
- 1 Tbps+ DDoS filtering up front
- 20 Gbps uplink on every hypervisor
- SSD disk space included
- Bolt on cPanel whenever you want it
- Snapshot backups on demand
- Add extra SSD disks in seconds
- Reboot, rebuild and console from your panel
- No setup fee - deploys the moment you pay
- Humans on support 24/7, not bots
Orders complete over at Hosting Cheap, which handles billing for everything we sell.
Raw Speed
An event loop kept honest by KVM and NVMe
Node holds its speed right up to the moment the CPU runs dry. KVM assigns your app real cores and real memory, not a slice that other tenants keep tugging at, and that is what keeps the event loop answering when load turns up. NVMe below speeds installs and database reads, so production performs the way your benchmarks said it would.
- Guaranteed cores and memory
- Every tier riding NVMe
- 1 Gbps of network uplink
- No overselling, ever
Typical Workloads
How these servers actually spend their time
APIs and app backends
Express, Fastify, NestJS or a GraphQL layer, and enough headroom left over for whatever a genuine launch throws your way.
Realtime, chat and bots
WebSocket servers, chat services, Discord bots and Telegram bots all hold their connections open at every hour.
Docker and microservices
Ship a single image, run a compact compose stack, or sit several services alongside one another on one root server.
Always Reachable
A dedicated IP sitting behind DDoS filtering
An API earns its keep by staying up. Network-level DDoS filtering keeps your endpoints answering while an attack rolls through, and the dedicated IPv4 gives webhooks and outbound calls a steady reputation that nobody else can dent. Since you are the sole tenant on that machine, SSH hardening, the firewall and TLS get configured exactly the way you want them.
- Hostile traffic filtered upstream
- IPv4 that belongs only to you
- A single-tenant machine — yours
- Free SSL under your control
Scaling Up
From the first deploy to sustained load
Buy the tier this month calls for, then climb once the app has earned it. An upgrade leaves your code, your databases and your process setup precisely where they were, and only the resources beneath them grow. As traffic climbs, extra CPU, RAM, storage and bandwidth sit a few clicks away, with no reinstall and nothing at all to migrate.
- Tier upgrades in a few clicks
- 30 GB up to 250 GB of storage
- 125 GB through 1 TB of bandwidth
- Data never has to move
The Route Up
An empty server to a live app
- 1
Size up a tier
Size it against the traffic and memory you expect. Root access and NVMe storage come standard on every plan here, not only the large ones.
- 2
Set up your runtime
nvm will fetch the exact release for you, as will the official binaries. From there, hand it to PM2 for supervision, or wrap the whole app in Docker.
- 3
Launch, then scale as needed
Put Nginx out front to handle TLS and proxying, aim the domain at your IP, then move up a tier as soon as the metrics ask for it.
Included
Standard with every Node.js VPS
- Root login on a VPS of your own
- KVM-guaranteed CPU and memory
- NVMe storage starting at the base tier
- A dedicated IPv4 address
- Any Node.js release you choose
- Full support for PM2 and Docker
- Space to run Nginx as a proxy
- Git, SSH and standard build tools
- Network-level DDoS filtering
- Support awake at every hour
Production Stack
Each layer inside a working Node deployment
All the moving parts of a production setup, assembled on a VPS you control outright.
Your Node runtime
Whichever release you want comes down through nvm, or straight from the official tarballs. Current LTS for anything in production. Otherwise the exact build your bundle was tested on.
Supervision, your way
PM2 keeps the process standing and brings it back after a crash. Docker with a compose file achieves the same thing inside a container. With root, either one takes minutes to set up.
Databases, local or remote
Put Postgres, MongoDB or Redis on the box itself and connect over localhost, or point the app at a managed instance somewhere else. Both work.
Nginx up front, HTTPS handled
End TLS at a free self-renewing certificate, proxy on through to Node, and serve over port 443 the way any production site ought to.
RAM sized for real work
Memory is what Node enjoys. Allow 2 GB for a modest API, then 4 GB or more once the app carries genuine load.
A clear upgrade path
Response times creeping up and memory running tight are the signal. More cores, RAM and disk sit a couple of clicks away.
Plain Answers
Node.js hosting without the jargon
What Node.js release can I install?
Any release you like, and the call stays yours. Every plan is a KVM VPS with root included, so no shared platform gets to dictate the build. Most people reach for nvm: install it, fetch whichever release the project wants, and that is that. Perhaps the current LTS line for production, perhaps the precise version your build was validated against. Not keen on nvm? The official Node binaries, or your distribution packages, do the job equally well. Several versions can sit on one machine together, with an .nvmrc file in each project pinning the right one, which helps when a single server carries a few apps. A new LTS ships and you move on your own schedule, not ours. Runtime version, package manager, whether npm or pnpm or yarn, and upgrade cadence are all your decisions.
Can I run my app under PM2 or Docker?
Either one, or the two side by side. Root access means nothing special is needed. For a bare Node process, PM2 is the usual pick: it keeps the app alive, relaunches after a crash, forks a worker per core when you want the whole CPU busy, and rotates its own logs. Run pm2 start, then pm2 startup and pm2 save, and the app comes back on its own after a reboot. Containers more your thing? Install Docker and launch your image, or bring up a small docker-compose stack, the app in one container with Postgres and Redis next door. Plenty of teams blend both: Docker for dependencies, PM2 for the app, or exactly the other way round. And because the server belongs to you, a plain systemd unit is every bit as legitimate. We look after the VPS, the network and the DDoS filtering. How the process gets supervised is your call.
Do you manage this for me, or is the machine mine to run?
The machine is yours to run. Unmanaged is the deliberate choice here, and it is what makes root, a Node version of your own picking and a process setup you designed affordable at this price. Draw the line at the operating system. Above it sits your territory: runtime, PM2 or Docker, reverse proxy, databases, deploy pipeline, laid out however the project demands. Beneath it we hold the hardware, the KVM layer, the London datacentre network and the DDoS defences, so nothing invisible ever lands on your desk. Questions about infrastructure, provisioning or the network reach support 24/7, and a plan resize or a misbehaving route is work we take on gladly. Would you rather not self-manage? Ask about managed cover. Some teams put a developer on the application side and leave the VPS with us.
Could the database and the reverse proxy sit on that same VPS?
It can, and most people do exactly that. Root lets you install Postgres, MongoDB or Redis on the VPS itself, so the Node app speaks to it over localhost, shaving off a hop and the latency that comes with it. Sessions, caching and job queues tend to live in Redis, while the primary data sits in Postgres or MongoDB. Run one, run all three, sized to whatever RAM the tier provides. Nginx normally takes the front door as a reverse proxy: terminating TLS with a free self-renewing certificate, listening on port 443, spreading load across your PM2 workers or containers, and handing out static files without waking Node. Nginx facing outward, Node tucked behind, data a hop away. That is the shape of a normal production deployment. A separate managed database instead? Connect outward to it. Nothing forces the data onto this box.
How does the app survive after I disconnect?
With a process manager in front of it. Run node server.js bare in production and it dies the moment the shell closes, or the first time an exception escapes, which is why nobody does. PM2 answers that: the app runs as a daemon, comes back after a crash, and with pm2 startup followed by pm2 save it returns after a reboot with nobody logging in. Turn on cluster mode and a worker forks per core, letting one app claim the whole tier, while the built-in logs make post-incident digging far less painful. Containers instead? Docker restart policies do the same job, and a systemd unit remains a perfectly sound native choice. Wrapped around it all, guaranteed KVM cores and NVMe storage keep your app out of any fight for CPU, and network-level DDoS filtering keeps it reachable while an attack runs. What you benchmarked is what production hands back.
Can you lend a hand with deployment, or with moving an app across?
Gladly. As soon as the order lands, raise a ticket and the team gets you moving: server provisioned, SSH and your dedicated IPv4 checked and working, plus sensible advice on the operating system and the firewall. On the application side a standard deploy looks like this. Clone the Git repository onto the server. Install dependencies. Set the environment variables. Build, where the project needs building. Then launch under PM2 or Docker. We will walk through each step with you if you want. Arriving from another host? We can shift the code, the environment settings and a local database so the app behaves the same on its new VPS. Stage everything against the dedicated IP first, flip DNS afterwards, and the cutover stays tidy. Want a heavier hand on the application layer? Ask about managed cover. Otherwise the 24/7 team keeps its focus on infrastructure and network.
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Launch your Node.js app before the day ends.
Root access, any Node release, PM2 or Docker on NVMe — plus real humans to call when you want another set of eyes.
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We tuned it for JavaScript developers pushing APIs and apps live, so the extras other hosts bill for come standard: certificates, site moves, daily snapshots and answers from the people running the servers.
Node in production without a whole server
Spin up a Node application from the panel, select the version, define the entry point, and the process manager keeps it running and restarts it on a crash. npm and Git wait at the SSH prompt, environment variables live in the panel, and the app serves behind LiteSpeed with its certificate already in place.
The hardware carries the load: 100% NVMe storage, LiteSpeed over HTTP/2, and a 99.9% uptime SLA our monitoring desk stands behind. Fast pages keep visitors and search engines happy alike.
Node hosting, priced sensibly
No second price lurks in year two. The listed rate is the invoiced rate, this term and every term after, and any intro offer shows its renewal figure alongside. Servers are built to order for you alone, so they sit outside the money-back window — talk to us before you commit and we will size the machine honestly.
You do not need a platform seat at $50 a month to put an API online. Node runs on the business shared plans, and when the app demands root or more memory, a KVM VPS from $13.52 steps in.
Node's home on the platform
Node processes execute on NVMe-backed accounts in our London datacentre, auto-restarted on exit and watched by monitoring that reaches an engineer before it ever reaches you.
We never wait for a customer to flag an outage. Fleet monitoring runs minute by minute and wakes an engineer first, so what usually reaches you is the fix, not the fault.
- Per-application choice of Node versions
- Auto-restarting process manager
- a 99.9% uptime SLA backed by service credits
- Daily backups you restore yourself, in one click
Good to Know
More that's built in
Your workflow, unchanged
git pull, npm install, restart — the exact commands from your local machine, run over SSH.
A panel that gets out of your way
Day-to-day tools sit two clicks deep at most, and none are locked behind a bigger tier.
Scale up without relocating
A larger plan is a single confirmation away, and you pay only the difference from switch day.
Free to leave any time
Standard panels and standard backups make leaving easy whenever you choose. Most customers never do.
Fast from the first byte
Your app runs on NVMe storage with LiteSpeed caching ahead of it — fast before you open a single setting.
HTTPS at no cost
Every domain gets a certificate issued and renewed automatically, and it never shows up on a bill.
Getting Going
Three short steps to get running
- 1
Select a tier
Choose a business tier, or a VPS when the app needs root.
- 2
Hook up the domain
Aim the domain here; the certificate installs for you.
- 3
Open for traffic
Push your code, define the entry point, start the process.
In Every Plan
Comes with the plan, no surcharge
- Built to order, so specced with you before you buy
- Panel-managed Node applications
- Command-line SSH, Git and npm
- HTTP/2 enabled on LiteSpeed servers
- Network-edge DDoS filtering as standard
- Free WHOIS privacy on every registry that permits it
- One-click installer covering 240+ apps
- Accounts provisioned minutes after checkout
Still Curious
Questions that keep coming up
Do bots and background workers run here too?
They do. The process manager keeps long-running scripts alive beside your web app, and cron handles anything on a schedule. When a workload wants serious memory or a dedicated queue service, that is the moment a VPS at $13.52 a month becomes the smarter buy.
Do I wait around after ordering?
The panel login reaches you within minutes. If your app currently lives elsewhere, we copy it across first, test everything, and only then repoint the DNS.
Do certificates cost anything?
Free, installed and renewing on its own. You would only buy a certificate for a wildcard or a validated seal that procurement demands.
What if Node.js hosting turns out to be the wrong size?
Machines like these are assembled to your specification, so they carry no money-back window — that is why we would rather get the sizing right up front than sell you more than you need. Tell the team the workload before you order and they will recommend the tier honestly. Outgrowing it later is a resize, not a repurchase.
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