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		cmwelsh on Oct 8, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Heroku WebSockets Now in Public Beta What is the average latency for the service? From my benchmarks, there is a measurable difference between cloud VPS WebSocket latency/bandwidth and dedicated server WebSocket latency/bandwidth.

tlrobinson on Oct 9, 2013 [–]

With a simple echoing Node.js WebSocket server I'm getting about 50 ms (each way) on Heroku, DotCloud, and Engine Yard. That's probably not much more than the network latency.

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