Why not add Node.js?

[Admin]

@Thewebuser22

I have to ask the question why not add Nodejs? I don’t think it would be a loss, in fact it would offer a great deal of extra people here!

Of course adding NodeJS support is not a loss. Adding features is never directly a loss. Everyone wants more features. Some features you don’t need so you don’t use them, others are useful to you.

But adding features takes development capacity, and that’s very much a finite resource.

@Thewebuser22

Nodejs is free and wouldn’t really be too invasive memory-wise.

I explained why this is not the case before:

@Admin

PHP has an important characteristic that makes it very well suited for web hosting: it’s an interpreted language. What Apache (and Litespeed) does is that whenever a new HTTP request comes in to your account, they spawn a process to handle the request. They will keep this process alive to handle more requests for your account. But once the visitor leaves, the process is stopped. And if you suddenly get a lot or traffic, many new processes can be created to temporarily handle the traffic spike, which are all cleaned up when the traffic dies down.

This means that if there is no traffic on your website, there are no active processes for your account. And that means there is no CPU usage, no memory usage and no other system resource usage (except for disk space of course). This makes PHP very well suited for low traffic websites on a shared environment. Which is what web hosting, and especially free hosting, is designed for.

@Thewebuser22

Still, I believe it is a good suggestion, and I stand by it.

Sure. Just don’t expect it to be here any time soon.