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I was going to put a smiley after that first line as it was kind of tongue in cheek, but HN isn't the place for smilies!

People pay Heroku/AWS each month, I don't see any difference with outsourcing this part too. That said, we use Linode boxes because I'm ok with configuring nginx etc... and I don't feel comfortable using IndexTank or MongoHQ etc... for outsourcing our search or database components, so I certainly sympathise with the unease at outsourcing key infrastructure which is easy to manage.

Pusher is marginally more complicated, but means I can call the problem solved and move onto other things. I agree it's a very interesting and fun area so it's certainly something I want to play with more in the future, but there are also 100 other interesting things which I need to work on, so I'll tackle those first.

Definite kudos to daraosn, just because I use Pusher because it solves my problem doesn't mean I don't think it's an awesome thing to work on as an open source project.