Is there any free for dealing with web sockets

I am trying to create a real time chatting application so I need websockets so I found two services pusher and socket.io but they are not free.

Is there any alternative way to deploy realtime without using these services

lostdreamer_nl

8 years ago

Level 53

Pusher is free up to a certain point:

100 Max Connections
Unlimited Channels
200k Messages / Day
Limited Support
SSL Protection

So with max 100 users at the same time, and 200.000 messages / day, it's still free.

Socket.IO is not a service, it's a script (which is free)

If you really want to have it for free, up to unlimited users etc., you'll have to install nodeJS or reactphp for your sockets backend and use socket.io for the client side:

They have documentation about setting up a nodeJS backend: https://socket.io/docs/#

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