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I am a bit underwhelmed. Node.js support at Heroku and Joyent are not public. If you start in the Node game right now you have to setup your own servers. SAAS anyone?

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I set up a node server on AWS this weekend using a Micro instance. It took almost an hour to execute my install script (most of that was compiling the lastest Node) but in the end I was charged $0.37 for 15 hours of compute time and some disk usage. Step by step: http://dpritchett.posterous.com/get-up-and-running-with-node...

I did the same thing this weekend. Setting up node on ec2-micro with a ubuntu 10.04 image. The process was mostly straight forward but I had a issue with in correct entry in fstab resulting in not being able to ssh in after a reboot. The fix was simple but I did waste an hour on it.

Here is a list of steps I did http://pastebin.com/gz01XZnU

Main thing is to fix the fstab as soon as you login the first time.

Not exactly what you asked, but you can use Erbix.com which supports the CommonJS standard and is based on the RingoJS engine.

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