title: HTML5 - WebSocket in shared hosting
body: <p>I used to have a small chat app(which was almost working), that uses PHP, jQuery and MySQL. The volume of users is very small (only my friends uses it). I used long polling method for this.</p>
  
  <p>And now, I am thinking about using HTML5 Websockets for this, because it is a lot more efficient. And also most of my friends are using Google Chrome(which already supports HTML5). I have gone through some tutorials that talks about HTML5 websockets. And I have downloaded the <a href="https://github.com/esromneb/phpwebsocket" rel="noreferrer">phpWebSocket</a> from github. I have gone through the code. But the readme file says that the PHP page that listens to incoming connections should be run using "PHP -q" from commandline. So, I have searched what this "q" flag would do. And I found that it runs the page in quiet mode. So, when I run this in quiet mode what is happened ? It would run endlessly ? Will this running process affect the system resources ?</p>
  
  <p>This PHP page should run the entire time. Then only the connections could be accepted. Isn't it ?</p>
  
  <p>I am having a shared hosting package with HostGator. And they allow cron jobs too. And my present chat app(that uses long polling method) inserts all the messages to database. When the user polls, it would search for any new messages from the database and then output them (if any).</p>
  
  <p>So, I am bit stuck here. :(</p>