Soketi: Simple, fast and resilient open-source WebSockets server

&gt; Stop paying for €xpen$ive realtime<p>First time I&#x27;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&#x2F;push SaaS.

&gt; 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:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uNetworking&#x2F;uWebSockets.js" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;uNetworking&#x2F;uWebSockets.js</a>

I like how the site clearly explains what it is, how it works, and what it does - with benchmarks. I’m not even a hardcore developer.

&quot;This is because you pay only for the infrastructure.&quot; It is licensed under AGPL, is there a dual licensing for commercial projects?

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&#x27;re just saying all you need to do is put this on a cheap VPS).

Soketi is awesome. I’m using it with Laravel on some internal projects and it’s been really easy to setup and almost zero maintenance when up.

The Cloudflare Workers version sounds great. I&#x27;ve been noodling around with this idea a bit too, it&#x27;s a pleasant surprise to see something out of the box :)

I&#x27;m a php &amp; mysql -dev and still can&#x27;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?

What can I use it for? What is it?

Would love to see a comparison of this with nginx+node or even nchan

Does anyone know how this compares with centrifugo?

Oof Ably not looking so good suddenly..

&gt; Price: $5 (a DigitalOcean instance)<p>&gt; Connections: Unlimited<p>&gt; Messages: Unlimited<p>Yeah...there is still a limit to what a $5 instance can handle.