I am new to socket.io and Node JS and I am trying to build a scalable application with a high number of simultaneous socket connections (10,000+).

Currently, I started on a model where my server creates child process, and every child process listens a specific port with a sicket.io instance attached. Once a client connects, he is redirected on a specific port.

**The big question is : Does having several socket.io instances on several ports increases the number of possible connections ?** 

Here is my code, just in case :

Server

```
var server = http.createServer(app);

server.childList = [];
for (var i = 0; i < app.portList.length; i++) {
  server.childList[i] = require('child_process').fork('child.js');
}

server.listen(3443, () => {
  for (var i = 0; i < app.portList.length; i++) {
    server.childList[i].send({ message: 'createServer', port: app.portList[i] });;
  }
});

```

child.js :

```
var app = require('./app');
var http = require('http');
var socket_io        = require( "socket.io" );

process.on('message', (m) => {
    if (m.message === 'createServer') {

        var childServ = http.createServer(app);

        childServ.listen(m.port, () => {
            console.log("childServ listening on port "+m.port);
        });

        var io = socket_io();
        io.attach( childServ );

        io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
            console.log("A client just connected to my socket_io server on port "+m.port);
        });
    }
});

```

Feel free to release the kraken if I did something horrible there