Hi - I head up Element Matrix Services (EMS), so hopefully I can answer some of these questions for you. Element home is really aimed at helping to get less te

Hi - I head up Element Matrix Services (EMS), so hopefully I can answer some of these questions for you. Element home is really aimed at helping to get less technical users up and running with their own home on Matrix as quickly and easily as possible. Under the hood Element Home servers and our smaller / Nickel products are pretty similar (similar resource allocations etc.). The main differences are in the setup process. With Element Home we've created a whole new setup process and have tried to reduce the number of configuration steps, selecting default options wherever possible. The trade-off for this is that while many of these options are changeable after setup, some (like custom DNS) are not. So, if you're a bit more technical and want things like custom DNS, then you're better to start off with a Nickel host.