> Stop paying for €xpen$ive realtime<p>First time I've seen what appears to be a purely free project going on the offense against SaaS providers, complete with a mock pricing table. I wonder what the motivation is. Bad experience with a SaaS?<p>Brilliant website in any case. And I say this as someone who works on a realtime/push SaaS.
> Written on top of C, ported to Node.js.<p>I think what they mean is it uses uWebSockets.js, a Node.js module wrapping a C++ implementation.<p><a href="https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js</a>
I get their goal with the pricing comparison table, but it makes it initially appear like this has an actual cost (when in reality they're just saying all you need to do is put this on a cheap VPS).
The Cloudflare Workers version sounds great. I've been noodling around with this idea a bit too, it's a pleasant surprise to see something out of the box :)
I'm a php & mysql -dev and still can't understand these websockets.
What if I have a cron job that sends messages to this websocket server and it pushes them to web-app (vue front, added to home screen on mobile phone, not an installed app) push notification.
How this can be done ?
and how can the server even keep up with the websocket connections to thousands of clients ? does the websocket re-open if user restarts their phone?
> Price: $5 (a DigitalOcean instance)<p>> Connections: Unlimited<p>> Messages: Unlimited<p>Yeah...there is still a limit to what a $5 instance can handle.