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I am looking to start a HTML5 WebSockets project and I was just wondering what you think the best back-end would be for that sort of thing? So far in my research I've stumbled across the following:
Does anyone know of any other options or have an opinion on the above? My only requirements are ease of set-up and easy back end programmibility for bidirectional communication. I would essentially like to access a database through WebSockets and am looking for the easiest way to do this. Any feedback would be appreciated.
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The theoretical limit is 65k connections per IP address but the actual limit is often more like 20k, so we use multiple addresses to connect 20k to each (50 * 20k = 1 mil). I then run the web server as root by typing sudo -i followed by ulimit -n 1024000 and then node examples/WebSocket. js (in the uWebSockets.
A WebSocket server is nothing more than an application listening on any port of a TCP server that follows a specific protocol. The task of creating a custom server tends to scare people; however, it can be straightforward to implement a simple WebSocket server on your platform of choice.
WebSockets has deep uses across many businesses and websites, such as GitHub, Easybase, Twitter, Facebook Messenger, and much more. Much of that popularity comes from how widely supported the technology is. Companies can trust that their applications will be supported by their users' devices.
Ease of setup would have to be a hosted solution which uses WebSockets, HTTP Streaming or HTTP Long-Polling (one of which I work for). They're the easiest option because you don't need to spend time installing your solution, configuring it and working out how to use in when developing and in production.
If you are looking for a self hosted solution then it really depends on what technology you'd prefer to use and what the community for that technology is like.
Hope this helps.
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I 'd recommend websocketd http://websocketd.com/ It 's a thin layer you can wrap around any program that reads from stdin and writes to stdout and transform it to a websocket server.
So you can write in any language you like. Afterwards just
$ websocketd --port=8080 my-program
and you have your server.
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