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I have a tiny VPS that costs less than $2 per month. I run a chat server on it. In seven years it has had no failures and one hour of planned downtime. That's b

I have a tiny VPS that costs less than $2 per month. I run a chat server on it. In seven years it has had no failures and one hour of planned downtime. That's better than any of the major cloud services. Simple stuff is surprisingly reliable.

prmoustache 3y ago
And if that vpn had been hosted in OVH's Strasbourg datacenter, in 2021 you would have had a huge downtime and possibly total loss of data without a backup in another datacenter. It is like driving under influence. Many people get away with it most if not all their life. Other die in stupid car crash alongside their pregnant wife mere days after their mariage. You are lucky until you aren't.
DoItToMe81 3y ago
What software are you using? I'm guessing it's probably not Matrix.
- masfuerte 3y ago
  The Conduit matrix server.
- Arathorn 3y ago
  I’m guessing that if you don’t join big federated chatrooms on your Matrix server, it runs absolutely fine on minimal resources. One of the smarter things the bluesky team looks to be doing is to split the world into heavy-lifting versus personal servers, so folks don’t end up with their personal servers suddenly sucking up lots of resources just because a user views #wtf or whatever. We should look into this sort of tiering too for Matrix, to eliminate the “Matrix is resource heavy” snark.
  - DoItToMe81 3y ago
    I don't federate. If I had more control over how much data other servers could dump on my server, other than restricting rooms with X number of users, I would. Synapse and Element together are heavier than any other chat servers/clients I've ran, with only one exception. It is not a big problem, because my number of active users is fairly small (under 50), but I could see myself having to use a different server software, or possibly a different protocol all together, if it were to open up and grow.
squeaky-clean 3y ago
Mind sharing that chat server so that all of us can use it, still think it will be stable? ;)

prmoustache 3y ago

And if that vpn had been hosted in OVH's Strasbourg datacenter, in 2021 you would have had a huge downtime and possibly total loss of data without a backup in another datacenter. It is like driving under influence. Many people get away with it most if not all their life. Other die in stupid car crash alongside their pregnant wife mere days after their mariage. You are lucky until you aren't.

DoItToMe81 3y ago

What software are you using? I'm guessing it's probably not Matrix.

masfuerte 3y ago
The Conduit matrix server.
Arathorn 3y ago
I’m guessing that if you don’t join big federated chatrooms on your Matrix server, it runs absolutely fine on minimal resources. One of the smarter things the bluesky team looks to be doing is to split the world into heavy-lifting versus personal servers, so folks don’t end up with their personal servers suddenly sucking up lots of resources just because a user views #wtf or whatever. We should look into this sort of tiering too for Matrix, to eliminate the “Matrix is resource heavy” snark.
- DoItToMe81 3y ago
  I don't federate. If I had more control over how much data other servers could dump on my server, other than restricting rooms with X number of users, I would. Synapse and Element together are heavier than any other chat servers/clients I've ran, with only one exception. It is not a big problem, because my number of active users is fairly small (under 50), but I could see myself having to use a different server software, or possibly a different protocol all together, if it were to open up and grow.

squeaky-clean 3y ago

Mind sharing that chat server so that all of us can use it, still think it will be stable? ;)