4 ms·

You run your own datacenter?

• approxim8ion 6y ago
  XMPP is extremely light, you can use a moderately powered personal computer to handle traffic from several users. I don't have the numbers with me but last I'd heard, the number was in the hundreds.
  • Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
    ejabberd can host ~2k active connections on $2/month server.
    • lxgr 6y ago
      Where can I get this $2/month server? The nice thing about client-side/end-to-end security is that the service provider matters less. Also, $2/month is $2 more than many people would be willing to pay for private messaging, and I can't message people on a network they're not on, no matter how much I pay.
      • Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
        Ionos.com And if you're privacy is worth less than $2/month, just use Telegram. It works way better than these messenges obsessed with privacy, precisely because it does not have encryption for most messages
        • lxgr 6y ago
          > Ionos.com That looks a lot like a server hosted by somebody else in a data center. It's also way more hassle than almost all of my contacts would be willing to go through, and if only I self-host but they don't, it'll be Gmail all over. (Almost all emails go through Gmail because that's what at least one of the parties in an exchange is likely using.) Point-to-point encryption is not enough for messaging in today's network topology. > just use Telegram No thanks, I'll continue using one actually spending some effort on not being able to read the messages their users send. Fortunately most people in my country do. Ironically it's only a couple of people in my circle of friends worried about the privacy of said messenger switching to Telegram "because it's encrypted"...