SurgeRealtime for Laravel, self-hosted.

A lightweight, Pusher-compatible WebSocket server. Point Laravel Echo at your own machine — no code changes, no per-message bills, zero required dependencies.

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Drop-in for Laravel

Speaks the Pusher protocol, so the stock pusher broadcaster and Laravel Echo work unchanged. Repoint host and port — done.

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Fails closed

A real RFC 6455 core that rejects malformed, unmasked, or oversized frames instead of mangling them. Every signature is verified in constant time.

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Light by default

The lite runtime is pure PHP with zero required dependencies. One command to run, nothing to compile, runs anywhere PHP runs.

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Presence & private channels

Public, private, and presence channels with member tracking and client events — authorized by the same HMAC signature Laravel already generates.

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Scales horizontally

Optional Redis pub/sub relay across nodes, implemented as a RESP client over raw sockets. No extension required.

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Own your infrastructure

No usage caps, no third party seeing your traffic, no surprise bills. Run it next to your app.

Why Surge

Pusher's developer experience, your server

Surge keeps everything you like about hosted realtime — Laravel Echo, private and presence channels, broadcast() — and moves it onto infrastructure you control.

	Pusher (hosted)	Laravel Reverb	Surge
Self-hosted	No	Yes	Yes
Works with Laravel Echo unchanged	Yes	Yes	Yes
Required dependencies to start	Account	PHP + ext	None
Per-message pricing	Yes	No	No
Multi-core runtime	n/a	No	Experimental

How it feels

Three steps to realtime

Install

composer require nsd7/surge — the service provider auto-registers.

Point Echo at Surge

Set the host and port in your broadcasting and Echo config. No code changes.

Serve & broadcast

php artisan surge:serve, then broadcast() as you always have.

Ship realtime this afternoon.

Start with the lite runtime — the supported default — and reach for Redis scaling when you grow.

composer require nsd7/surge