title: Signalr on Azure Mobile Services or Web Roles
body: <p>I am developing a mobile application that makes extensive and continuous use of SignalR to communicate to a SignalR service.</p>
  
  <p>I have previously assumed that I would use a Web Role to host the service, and then add more Web Roles backed by a backplane of Service Bus or Redis as and when the service needs to scale out. Using a Web Role would also allow me to significantly scale up if I wanted to avoid possible latency issues with the backplane.</p>
  
  <p>However when I compare the pricing of the Web Role to Azure Mobile Services it appears that the Mobile Services may be cheaper.</p>
  
  <p>So can Mobile Services be used instead?
  And if so what are the pros and cons of doing so?</p>