Embracing the Cloud - Installing Node.js On Amazon EC2Update: About one year after writing this article I switched to hosting node.js apps on Heroku. Check it out. Node.js is an impressively fast and lightweight web server based on the Google V8 Javascript engine. I really enjoy working with node.js for the simple elegance of language parity between client and server. The use of server-side Javascript also means taking advantage of common JS patterns
