Revert "fall back to polling for now"

This reverts commit 0f39f37638857fa9bb0f24ed818716ad3bb06890.
Revert "add healthcheck"

This reverts commit 1432f12b742fca7f4cd66ece5e2766c10389f083.
Revert "websockets are now working"

This reverts commit 7441b52cd9f461e98dd7f982818dd9db6f29e314.
Revert "got chat working as a node cluster"

This reverts commit a37f142e69383c52a197eb26c76440c4cca4e927.