SowfiHost runs Node.js as a supported application type inside cPanel, on the same containerised infrastructure as our PHP hosting.
You deploy from the panel, set your Node version, define your startup command and the platform routes traffic to your application automatically. The proxy, the process supervisor and the SSL termination are already configured.
- Per-site containers
- Multiple Node versions
- Automatic restart
- SSL included
Node.js Hosting Plans
Single Cloud
Best choice for Beginners
₹300 /Month
- Free domain
- 1 Website
- 50 GB NVMe Storage
- Free SSL
- 2 Sub domains
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 2 Email Account
- 1 MySQL Databases
Premium Cloud
Best choice for Growing Websites
₹400 /Month
- Free domain
- 5 Website
- 75 GB NVMe Storage
- Free SSL
- 10 Sub domains
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 20 Email Account
- 10 MySQL Databases
Most Popular
Alpha Cloud
Best choice for All
₹500 /Month
- Free .com/.in domain for 1 Year
- 200 Website
- 200 GB NVMe Storage
- Free SSL
- 200 Sub domains
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 100 Email Account
- 100 MySQL Databases
Beta Cloud
Best choice for Power Users
₹700 /Month
- Free .com/.in domain for 1 Year
- 400 Website
- 250 GB NVMe Storage
- Free SSL
- Unlimited Sub domains
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 150 Email Account
- Unlimited MySQL Databases
Single Cloud
Best choice for Personal Websites
₹225 /Month
For 12 months You Pay: ₹2700- Free domain
- 1 Website
- 50 GB NVMe Storage
- Free SSL
- 2 Sub domains
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 2 Email Account
- 1 MySQL Databases
Premium Cloud
Best choice for Growing Businesses
₹300 /Month
For 12 months You Pay: ₹3600- Free domain
- 5 Website
- 75 GB NVMe Storage
- Free SSL
- 10 Sub domains
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 20 Email Account
- 10 MySQL Databases
Most Popular
Alpha Cloud
Best choice for All
₹375 /Month
For 12 months You Pay: ₹4500- Free .com/.in domain for 1 Year
- 200 Website
- 200 GB NVMe Storage
- Free SSL
- 200 Sub domains
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 100 Email Account
- 100 MySQL Databases
Beta Cloud
Best choice for Large Enterprises
₹525 /Month
For 12 months You Pay: ₹6300- Free .com/.in domain for 1 Year
- 400 Website
- 250 GB NVMe Storage
- Free SSL
- Unlimited Sub domains
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 150 Email Account
- Unlimited MySQL Databases
Single Cloud
Best choice for Personal Websites
₹150 /Month
For 36 months You Pay: ₹5400- Free domain
- 1 Website
- 50 GB NVMe Storage
- Free SSL
- 2 Sub domains
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 2 Email Account
- 1 MySQL Databases
Premium Cloud
Best choice for Growing Businesses
₹200 /Month
For 36 months You Pay: ₹7200- Free domain
- 5 Website
- 75 GB NVMe Storage
- Free SSL
- 10 Sub domains
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 20 Email Account
- 10 MySQL Databases
Most Popular
Alpha Cloud
Best choice for All
₹250 /Month
For 36 months You Pay: ₹9000- Free .com/.in domain for 1 Year
- 200 Website
- 200 GB NVMe Storage
- Free SSL
- 200 Sub domains
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 100 Email Account
- 100 MySQL Databases
Beta Cloud
Best choice for Large Enterprises
₹350 /Month
For 36 months You Pay: ₹12600- Free .com/.in domain for 1 Year
- 400 Website
- 250 GB NVMe Storage
- Free SSL
- Unlimited Sub domains
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 150 Email Account
- Unlimited MySQL Databases
*Prices mentioned above are excluding of 18% GST
Which Node.js Versions You Can Run
Node.js releases follow a fixed schedule: a new major version ships every April and October, enters Active LTS in October and reaches end-of-life roughly three years after its initial release.
SowfiHost supports multiple Node.js versions selectable per website. You can run Node 24 on a new application and Node 22 on a legacy service under the same account, without affecting each other.
Node.js 24 is the version to target for a new production deployment. It is in Active LTS and receives security patches. Node.js 26 moves into LTS on 28 October 2026.
Node.js 20 reached end-of-life on 30 April 2026 and should not be used for new projects.
Support timeline, as of October 2026
- Node.js 26
- Node.js 24
- Node.js 22
- Node.js 20
Node.js applications run inside the website container and are subject to the same resource limits as PHP applications. CPU, RAM, entry processes and I/O are shared across everything the container runs.
If your application is the only workload in the container, you have the full allocation. If you also run a WordPress site on the same plan, they share it. Size accordingly.
The Operational Model and Deployment
Per-Site Installation, Not Per-Server
Node.js is installed on the website's home directory, which means version changes and configuration apply only to that site and do not affect other websites on the same server. This is the practical consequence of the container model: your Node runtime is yours, not a shared system binary that someone else can upgrade under you.
Routing and the Port Contract
Traffic routing to your application is automatic. When a Node.js app is installed on a website, the primary domain is proxied to it. You do not configure Nginx or Apache yourself.
One contract you must honour: your application must listen on the port provided by the environment variableprocess.env.PORT. The platform routes traffic to that port. An application that hard-codes port 3000 will fail with a 502 or 503 error because nothing is listening where the proxy expects.
Multiple domains: only the primary domain is proxied to the Node application. To point additional domains at the same app, add them as aliases and redirect them with .htaccess in the document root.
// Works: listens where the proxy expects
app.listen(process.env.PORT);
// Fails with 502/503: nothing on the proxied port
app.listen(3000);Management Controls
The panel exposes the controls you need for day-to-day operation. There is no separate dashboard to learn.
- Update the application path
- Update the startup command
- Choose the Node.js version
- Switch between automatic and manual mode
- Delete the application
- Enable or disable the proxy
- Allow WebSocket proxying
What to Plan For
Application Support Is Not Included
The platform documentation is explicit: Node.js hosting is intended for experienced system administrators and the hosting provider cannot offer application-level support.
That means if your Express route returns a 500 because of a bug in your handler, or yournpm install fails because of a peer dependency conflict, or your database connection pool is exhausted, that is your code and your responsibility.
We will help you read the log file and identify whether the problem is platform-side or application-side. We will not debug your code for you. This boundary is stated here, before you buy, because discovering it during an outage is worse.
What SowfiHost supports
If the panel fails to start your application, or the proxy misroutes traffic, or the container has a platform-level fault, that is ours.
What we do not support
- Debugging your application code
- Resolving npm dependency trees
- Tuning your database queries
- Fixing a memory leak in your Node process
Node applications and backup restore
Node.js applications are included in website backups and are restored with the site, but they are not automatically redeployed after a restore.
After restoring a site that contains a Node application, you must redeploy it from the panel. Plan for this in your disaster recovery runbook: a restored site with an undeployed Node app will serve errors until you take that step.
Resource limits apply
Node.js can be resource-intensive. CPU and other resource limits on your package or per-website are enforced and an application that exceeds them will be throttled.
If your application spawns worker processes, runs heavy background jobs, or holds large in-memory caches, check the CPU and RAM allocation on your plan against your application's actual consumption before you deploy. We will help you measure it; we will not guess for you.
GitHub connectivity requirement
Deployment relies on the server being able to reach github.com. If outbound access to GitHub is blocked in your environment or network configuration, the Node.js feature will not function. This is not an issue on our Indian infrastructure, but it is worth knowing if your application pulls dependencies directly from GitHub during deployment.
Migrating a Node.js Application to SowfiHost
Moving an existing Node.js application from a VPS, a PaaS, or another managed host follows a different path from a PHP migration.
1
What you provide
Your application source, your package.json, your environment variables and secrets and your database dump. If you are on a VPS with SSH access, we can pull the application directory and database directly.
2
What we do
Stage the application in a container on our servers, install dependencies with npm or yarn, configure the startup command and Node version, set the environment variables, configure the proxy and SSL and test that the application responds on the primary domain before cutover.
3
What you must verify
That your application reads the port from process.env.PORT, that file-system paths are relative to the application directory rather than hard-coded to an old server path, that your database connection strings point at the new database and that any cron jobs or background workers are recreated.
First-time inbound migrations from another hosting provider are free, as with any other site type. Migration of additional sites later, plan or account transfers and ownership changes are priced openly and quoted before work begins. See our migration policy.
Node.js migrations that require application-level changes, like refactoring a hard-coded port, are in-application coding work, not a migration task.
Who Is Node.js Hosting on SowfiHost Best Suited For?
A good fit if you are
- Running an Express or Fastify application that needs a managed runtime without VPS administration
- Deploying an API or backend service alongside an existing PHP or static site on the same account
- Building a real-time application that needs WebSocket proxying
- A developer who wants automatic process restart and log capture without installing and maintaining PM2
- An agency hosting a client's Node.js application alongside their WordPress site
- Migrating off a PaaS whose per-seat or per-invocation pricing has outgrown the workload
Not the right fit if you need
- A PostgreSQL database
- Root access, custom kernel modules, or system-level daemons; that is a VPS or dedicated server
- Application-level debugging and code support from the hosting provider; that is a development retainer, not hosting
- Horizontally scaled real-time infrastructure serving hundreds of thousands of concurrent WebSocket connections; that is a cluster, not a shared container
- Windows, IIS, or .NET runtime environments
- A managed database service with automated failover; plan for an external database if your application requires it
If you are unsure which side of that line you fall on, describe your application, its expected traffic and its resource profile to our pre-sales team. We will tell you whether a shared Node.js container is the right home for it, including telling you to buy a VPS if that is the honest answer.
Start Deploying
Talk to our team before you migrate a production Node.js application. We will review yourpackage.json, your expected resource consumption and your database requirements and confirm which plan suits your application needs, before you commit.