How to upload a node.js project to the network?

Question

Node.js

How do I upload a project on a node to my hosting? I poorly understand how to do this, as far as I understand, regular hostings are not suitable for this, since Apache is mainly there? As I understand it, I need to create a VPS, and then I don’t know what to do. And immediately another question: it is unlikely that such giants as yahoo and linkedin use VPS. How does a commercial project on a node go to the Internet in general?
PS I have been learning the node for 2 weeks, before that I was a front-end developer, so sorry for such knowledge in the server side.

Answer 1

To make life easier, at first you can take some heroku, it is relatively cheap and you don’t need to configure anything yourself. And there are instructions for beginners, and a free account for experiments.
> hardly such giants as yahoo and linkedin use vps.
they have their own data centers, it's easier for them. But in general, the process does not differ much from VPS (except that the scale is different). There are also nuances related to administration, there is docker, there is ansible and so on for orchestration by servers, etc. But that's all later. No need to spontaneously try to cover everything at once. Take the simpler option for now and try it, and then when it's easy - you can level up and try to do the same on your own VPS, understand all this in general, etc. Now you just don't need it.

Answer 2

In addition to Heroku, there are a bunch of other services
List here
In general, your question will probably be deleted since it leads to a holivar
(And yes, you don’t know how to use Google)

Answer 3

English instruction:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/h...