[simonwex]

[TogetherJS Team Member Here] Our hope is for people to find easy, early success with TogetherJS. Hosting a service is still a relatively difficult thing to do, full of potential pitfalls and costs including SSL certs, etc. We want to steer first-time implementors down the simplest path. That being said, we're happy--no, ecstatic--for those who feel the need to host the hub themselves to do so.

Long term, we'd actually like to do away with the Hub server altogether, and rely instead on the WebRTC DataChannel API. Decentralizing this communication would bring countless benefits to the project, including lower hosting costs and much better end-user privacy implications.