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host matrix server?

@mewmew ok good luck 👍, I spend a stupid amount of time & money keeping ours fast & functional. And I’ve seen other relatively large servers fall victim to Synapse’s garbage programming, nitro.chat is laggy as hell for example 😅 — it scales poorly and breaks often.

@jonah what resources do you need for what level of users?

@mewmew we have probably 3.5k users. Although the number of rooms you are in matters more than user count, you could run into issues after a few hundred users in theory.

Uses around 40-50GB of the 64GB RAM allocated. Constantly pins the CPU on a Ryzen 9 3900 because it’s a single threaded Python app (although setting up Synapse workers helps dramatically, each individual worker will still hit 100% often). Disk usage is around 750GB, more than half of which is just the database, not even media.

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@mewmew but the most annoying thing is the fact that it will work fine for weeks and then perform awfully or just stop federating at all for literally no reason until you restart it.

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