Can't connect to peerjs signalling server

[wyattscarpenter]

Their server seems to be often down. Any time I've tried to test it basically since I finished my last period of work on this project. Options, in order of complexity:

1. Wait for them to fix it. It's a reported issue, as in Unable to connect peers/peerjs#693, so they might fix it soon.

2. Host my own PeerJS server, as described in Is the server down ? peers/peerjs#671 (comment). It seems pretty simple to do, as described in https://github.com/peers/peerjs-server: npm install peer -g && peerjs --port 9000 --key peerjs --path /myapp && wget http://127.0.0.1:9000/myapp. But this would introduce the complication of having to maintain a server and static url. Perhaps the free tier of some cloud service would suffice.

3. Change code to not use PeerJS. This would involve a strenuous (measured in terms of how much I want to do it) rewrite in order to jump from one frying into... a potentially less hot frying pan? Not very promising.

I think I will try 1 until I can't bear it / I get around to it, and then I will try 2. If things get really bad I might try 3.

[wyattscarpenter]

This appears to have been resolved. Strategy 1 worked.

[wyattscarpenter]

I will continue monitoring the situation until I am satisfied.

[wyattscarpenter]

This issue will be reopened if it becomes an issue again.