Because I'm poor, and didn't know whether I'd get any community support for my websites/apps/etc I went with namecheap because they are inexpensive beyond belief. What's surprised me the most is that their online support is excellent. They know stuff all about nodejs, but anyone who says they know anything about nodejs is lying.. ;). As I went with the cheapest package I had to set up everything on the server myself, and do it from the command line. While googling, I found that a hosting company called "Digital Ocean" I think it was, had excellent detailed articles on how to set up nodejs and all the accoutrements on CENT OS (which I chose to be the OS of my server). They might be worth looking into as well.

I'll tell ya, I came from strongly typed languages as well, and javascript is a sloppy mess and a nightmare. You can use Typescript which is strongly typed and compiles to ordinary javascript. However, I had an awful time trying to get it to work with nodejs and expressjs (look expressjs up, as you'll want to use it if you go the nodejs route). I gave up in the end and just used the ES6 javascript syntax with "use strict" flag and it at least pulls you up if you start making errors with types and whatnot. Not perfect, but a good first step.

Database-wise you can't go past MySQL. Although, the node stack seems to be geared towards something called MongoDB, which is a different model, as far as I can work out, and is centred around JSON. JSON is JavaScript Object Notation, in case you haven't stumbled across that one yet. ;). It's a data notation like XML, but exactly resembles javascript objects (which aren't really 'objects' like you would have known them from proper OO type languages).

Man, I'm rambling. Oops.. :)