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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.

@jonah holy fuck how much does that cost you

@mewmew a decent amount. $200ish monthly? Although I also run other things on this server. About half this server’s resources are allocated to Matrix.

@jonah jfc

I guess I need to up the Patreon shilling
@mewmew @jonah or you know just not bother with matrix...get people over to XMPP...
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@mewmew @mgrondin XMPP is trash anyhow. No good clients unless you’re on Android. And why would anyone use XML as a communications protocol lmao. The perfect blend of being hard to read by machines and hard to read by humans.

@jonah @mgrondin pretty much this. muc's don't stand up to Matrix rooms and the protocol devs are pussies
@mewmew @jonah :blobshrug: Works good enough for my use. And i don't have to pull my hair out/break the bank to keep it running.

Have fun with Matrix then
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