6 Best Hosts for Running a Node.js App & Your Website on One Plan

Your WordPress site is already live, and you've built a small Node app that runs fine with npm start on your laptop. Maybe it's an Express API behind a booking form, or a little dashboard. Now it needs a home, and you'd rather not pay a second bill, keep a second login and track a second renewal date just for it.

You can run both on one plan. Hostinger's Unlimited plan and Hosting.com's entry plan run both halves with no server work on your side, and DigitalOcean's $4 Droplet is the cheapest fixed price if you're willing to run the server yourself.

Three Ways One Plan Can Run Both

The setup a host uses decides who keeps the server running, so it's worth knowing all three before you compare prices.

A Node App Inside cPanel

On a typical cPanel host with Node.js turned on, a tool called Passenger starts your app and handles the port it listens on, so you never open one yourself. WordPress stays in the main folder of your domain, running on PHP as usual, and the Node app goes on a subdomain like api.example.com or a path like /app. If you put the app at the root of the domain, it takes every request and your WordPress site stops loading.

GreenGeeks Node.js hosting follows this pattern on the Pro plan, where you can create a Node.js app from the same cPanel account as your WordPress install. On any cPanel host, putting the app on its own addon domain can trip up the SSL setup, and you'll need to fix that by hand.

A VPS With a Reverse Proxy

On a plain virtual server, you install everything. A web server such as Nginx answers first, passing WordPress requests to PHP and app requests to your Node process, and a process manager keeps that process running. You get full control, and you're also the one who patches it and gets it running again after a crash.

DigitalOcean's Droplets and Amazon Lightsail are both built like this, and they have the cheapest fixed prices of the six.

Containers in One Project

On an app platform, WordPress runs as its own container, the database as another, and your Node app as a third, all in one project on one bill. You pay for what each one uses, so the bill is the total of all three.

Railway works this way, and its WordPress side comes from a community template. It does the job, but it isn't managed WordPress hosting in the usual sense.

1. DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean's Basic Droplet has the lowest fixed monthly price here for a single machine that runs both halves. It's $4.00 a month for 512 MiB of memory, one vCPU and 10 GiB of SSD storage, and that's the standard price, so there's no renewal jump. Since January 1, 2026, Droplets bill by the second, with a 60-second minimum and a cap at the monthly price. Backups cost extra, at 20% of the Droplet price for weekly or 30% for daily.

Nobody manages it for you, though. You install the web server, PHP, MySQL, Node and the reverse proxy, then keep all of them patched. And 512 MiB is tight for WordPress, MySQL and Node together, so plan on a bigger size.

2. AWS (Amazon Lightsail)

Lightsail gives you a flat monthly bundle instead of the usual AWS billing. The $5 bundle has 0.5 GB of memory, 2 vCPUs and 20 GB of SSD storage, with $7 and $12 bundles above it at 1 GB and 2 GB. An IPv6-only bundle starts at $3.50 a month. Its blueprints help here. They include WordPress and Node.js, so you can start with either half already set up.

A blueprint installs only one stack, though. You add the second one yourself over SSH, point the domain at both, and look after the server from then on.

3. GreenGeeks

On GreenGeeks, the WordPress site and the Node app share one cPanel account on the Pro plan, and GreenGeeks runs the server under both. To add the app, you go to Software, then NodeJS, then Create Application. The code goes up by Git, SSH or SFTP. Pro and Premium host unlimited websites, while the entry Lite plan hosts one and doesn't include Node.js.

If npm install fails or the app won't start, fixing it falls to you, because GreenGeeks' support article limits its help to making the Node.js environment available and rules out configuring, debugging or deploying the app.

4. Hostinger

Hostinger's Unlimited plan lists WordPress and Node.js side by side as things you can build on it. You deploy the Node app by connecting GitHub, uploading a ZIP or using a webhook, and it detects the framework without any config files. The plan also lists unlimited websites, 50 GB of NVMe storage and daily backups. It costs $3.99 a month on a 48-month term, which is $191.52 upfront, and renews at $16.99 a month.

Node web apps start on Unlimited and aren't offered on the cheaper Premium plan. Cloud Startup, the next step up, allows 10 web apps and renews at $25.99 a month. Hostinger's plan page doesn't say how many Node apps Unlimited allows, so check before you count on more than one.

5. Railway

Railway treats WordPress as a sibling service. You deploy it from a community template next to a MySQL or MariaDB database, and your Node app goes in the same project, where it redeploys automatically whenever new code reaches your connected repo. Hobby is $5 a month with $5 of usage included.

An always-on WordPress container, a database and a Node service all draw memory every second and are billed for it, so the bill can go past $5. The Hobby volume is also capped at 5 GB, which WordPress media can outgrow. The $20 Pro plan raises that limit to 1,000 GB.

6. Hosting.com

Hosting.com is the one host here that says in writing that its entry plan covers both halves. Its Starter plan includes five websites, one-click WordPress installs and Node.js apps, with several apps allowed per site. Its hosting page lists support for PHP, Node.js, MySQL and PostgreSQL. Deploys go through Git, SSH or a file upload. It uses its own Hosting Panel rather than cPanel, so the cPanel guides you find online won't match what you see. Staging is only on the Pro and Max plans.

What to Watch When Both Share One Plan

Some things work better apart, even when the plan allows them together.

• Don't mount the Node app at the root of your domain on a cPanel host. Give it a subdomain or a path so WordPress keeps working.
• Plan for the SSL workaround before you put the app on its own addon domain.
• Don't count on a shared host's support to fix your app code. On most of these plans the server is theirs and the app is yours.
• Watch how much space WordPress uploads take on a small container volume, like the 5 GB Railway Hobby limit.
• Don't run anything that needs root access or its own system services on a shared plan. That belongs on a server you control.

And if the Node app starts to matter more than the site, with real traffic and real users, it's worth giving it a home of its own.