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Thinking about doing the same. Any experience with how much load those cloud instances can take?

• phaer 7y ago
  Depends on the instance I guess, but a few dozen users on a cx21 seem to be no trouble at all. As someone else already mentioned in this thread, Jitsi does no transcoding server-side and is pretty low on resources.
  • martin_a 7y ago
    Thanks for the feedback. Estimating resource use for these kinds of service seems to be really hard. Thought about running it semi-public for my homewtown/area to support businesses, but how many of the 350k people will join? Or be concurrent users? Quite a few question marks for me...
    • toomuchtodo 7y ago
      Start small. Failure is cheap. Worst case, you seek out local sponsors for a dedicated server in donated colo somewhere nearby. Even if it doesn’t take off, you’ll have learned from the experience.
      • martin_a 7y ago
        You're right. I'll get this going this evening.
      • phaer 7y ago
        That's a good suggestion as well. If the plan is to run this instance as a non-profit for local users, it might also be possible to ask local ISPs to sponsor a box. That could help keeping traffic local and latencies low.
    • phaer 7y ago
      I am by no means an expert on that topic, but I would assume that while a big cloud instance could go far with regards to CPU and memory, network bandwidth/traffic could quickly become an issue with several 1000 users. Depending on the amount of work you are willing to put into this, you could even start with a load-balanced setup were one or more web servers, jicofos and prosodys are distributing the load to several videobridges. That would make it easier to scale the system up by adding additional instances.