When Self-Hosted Realtime Products Make Sense
Self-hosted realtime architecture makes sense when product behavior, data ownership, deployment control, or long-term flexibility are central to the business model.
Realtime behavior is a product decision
Realtime features are not only technical. In social, collaboration, marketplace, and operations products, the timing of updates changes how users feel and act.
If live presence, messaging, matching, rooms, or workflow state are central to the product, architecture should be chosen with that behavior in mind.
Managed platforms are not always wrong
Managed realtime services can be a smart early choice when the team needs speed and the product requirements are standard.
The question is whether vendor limits, data location, pricing, or customization will become a strategic constraint as the product grows.
Ownership can become the advantage
A self-hosted system can give the team more control over deployment, data flow, scaling decisions, and product-specific behavior.
Tigin evaluates this tradeoff carefully because ownership is valuable only when the product truly benefits from it.
Design the realtime foundation before scale pressure arrives
We can help choose and build the architecture for realtime mobile, web, and internal products.
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