Hey,

I work for Pusher and I have upgrade your account to a business plan for now.

We always love to help up and coming product, especially open source ones so drop me an email at sylvain@pusher.com to discuss this further. Happy to help.

S

This is some customer service right here, well done.

Awesome, thanks Sylvain!

Wow. This is awesome. The kind of stuff that makes me actually buy stuff from a company.

This is very kind of you and Pusher, but I have to be honest, if I'm to ever consider hosting something like this I'd like the option to be entirely self hosted and not reliant on external services.

> 4. Haha, I don't want to pay for Pusher right now. Will be working on a self-hosted push solution soon.

I hear great things about Faye: http://faye.jcoglan.com/

You can also get something up an running in Go very quickly that should scale pretty well and might make deploys easy since you can just compile to binaries.

eg: https://github.com/joncalhoun/sockets is a server that just allows POSTs with a message, and relays that message to all websocket subscribers. If you use any of that code be sure to change the hardcoded key here: https://github.com/joncalhoun/sockets/blob/master/main.go#L2... (I don't use this key in prod. It was just a test one.)

You might want to take a look at Ably.io as a pusher alternative. They have a generous free plan.