Every customer connects automatically to the nearest point of presence. No manual region selection, no failover config, no surprises when your traffic grows.
Traffic for ws.socketflare.com and
api.socketflare.com resolves to the closest healthy
edge via BGP anycast. When a PoP fails, your packets reroute in milliseconds — no client code involved.
A user in Tokyo opens your app. DNS anycast resolves ws.socketflare.com to the Tokyo PoP automatically. TLS terminates there.
Infrastructure shifts closer to your users across 300+ edge locations. No region config — latency optimizes itself.
Your server posts to api.socketflare.com. The publish hits the nearest edge, the channel wakes for microseconds, and every subscriber receives the message.
Pusher, Ably, and PubNub all ask you to pick a region or cluster at setup, and handle failover via SDK-level retry logic. SocketFlare has one hostname that works from every continent. A dead PoP is invisible to your clients — BGP routes around it before the TCP retry fires.