Web Hosting with Nodejs and MongoDB
In this article we have demonstrated how to set up a Node application using MongoDB as its database. It employs the MVC model-view-controller architectural pattern which separates application logic from how data is structured and rendered for users – an effective strategy for organizing application code while simultaneously making more performant apps by eliminating duplication.
Nodejs and MongoDB hosting offers many options; these range from hosting them yourself with Digital Ocean or Vultr to using managed platforms like Heroku for Node and Compose for Mongo, which take care of infrastructure management for you.
MongoDB Atlas, which is a fully managed database-as-a-service, can also be a viable choice. It simplifies deployments by managing, healing and scaling them automatically for you.
For this example, we will use a VPS running Ubuntu 18.04 operating system and Nodejs with mongodb-driver-1.8 installed – you can check which version has been installed by running “npm list mongodb.”
Kamatera provides Nodejs at $4 per month with 1GB RAM, 20GB SSD storage, 5TB network traffic, automated SSL certificate provisioning/installation and wildcard domain management – perfect if your app needs to run in multiple regions! Amazon Web Services’ Elastic Compute Cluster also offers managed Nodejs hosting which provides highly performant compute resources with low latency network connections for even greater performance.