I am doing a project with Php but I need to use Node.js to add more functionalities to the project, but this is hosted on a shared server, and I had a question. Can Node.js be installed on a shared server? and if this is not how I can work using Node.js for the project in Php. Thanks
Since it is a hosting with limited management to CPanel and without access to the S.O. shell. it is not possible to perform a Node installation. Even the same CPanel developers report this in the following links:
I suggest you deploy an IaaS server, being that Amazon Web Services grants one year of free use in its minimum version or some other service such as DigitalOcean, Linode, etc.
Nginx is a server web, Apache style but oriented to events (like Node) and acts as a proxy what that allows us redirect traffic incoming depending on the domain where they come, towards process and port that we are interested.
If you want to run an application, you could use it:)
In a shared hosting service, you can not usually install new programs (node.js for example), so I recommend you try the amazon or digitalocean vps, in which you have the administration of it.