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Introducing AltoHost: 19 Managed Services, One Platform

Today we are launching AltoHost — a complete backend platform that ships WebSocket channels, background jobs, SSE streaming, Redis cache, transactional email, push notifications, video rooms, messaging, audio hosting, image processing, OCR, full-text search, and more under a single API. We built it so your team never has to glue together a dozen vendors again.

AltoHost TeamMarch 20268 min read

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Zero to Production: Setting Up Your First App

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Server-Sent Events vs WebSockets: When to Use Each

WebSockets give you bidirectional communication; SSE gives you simple, HTTP-native streaming. We compare connection overhead, reconnection behavior, and real-world use cases to help you pick the right tool.

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Background Jobs at Scale: Queue Architecture Deep Dive

How the AltoHost job system processes hundreds of thousands of tasks per day with priority queues, automatic retries, dead-letter routing, and real-time progress streaming over WebSocket channels.

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The Complete Guide to Presence Channels

Learn how presence channels track who is online in real time — from subscribing and authenticating members to building collaborative cursors, typing indicators, and live user lists.

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