OK, glad to hear that it does work for you. Sounds like you have a robust architecture.

I don't actually know what is supposed to "not scale" about Meteor. I've just read it multiple times. But because of the nature of Meteor (Really easy for anyone to set up! Anyone can create a real time app in ten minutes or less!), it probably attracts a lot of junior developers. It therefore should have occurred to me to translate "It doesn't scale!" to "I don't know how to scale it and my app is slow!!!". :)