Nice to see more people discovering EventSource.
I've launched a small hosted service based on my open-source, Haskell-based EventSource Broker, making it easy to take advantage of the EventSource API without running into any of these issues: http://www.eventsourcehq.com
It's currently in private beta as a Heroku add-on. It doesn't depend on Heroku in any way though, and I'm adding beta testers who use it stand-alone as well. Throw me a note if you're interested.
