I have Web sockets working with nodejs locally, how do I put this onto test server?

I have something like this working successfully locally: http://ift.tt/1obmCYY

I want to test this out on my server hosted by Dreamhost.

I've done some research and people have said its not possible to do this wth a shared server and since Dreamhost dont allow SUDO user on the VPS's I cant do it using a VPS either.

So how do I go about doing this?

I know very little about servers so if someone could explain the steps on how I get my server to run "node index.js" that would be awesome.

Or am I going about this the wrong way?

TLDR: I want to get web sockets to work on my server, it works locally when I use "node index.js" and access http://localhost:3000, but doesnt work when I use xampp and access it via http://mychatapp.dev (I assume because node isnt running). So how do I get node to run alongside my apache, locally and on my test server hosted by dreamhost.

Thanks