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You can scale quite far using SQLite. That's what Basecamp is doing with their new self-hosted chat app, named ONCE Campfire. It is designed to scale to hundred

You can scale quite far using SQLite. That's what Basecamp is doing with their new self-hosted chat app, named ONCE Campfire. It is designed to scale to hundreds or even thousands of concurrent users with the right hardware: https://once.com/campfire https://once.com/campfire.

benhurmarcel 2y ago
I wonder why it needs 2Gb of RAM even for a low number of users though.
- ngrilly 2y ago
  Ruby on Rails is not known for being very RAM efficient, but this is only me speculating.
- runako 2y ago
  It ships as a Docker container. Docker recommends a minimum of 2GB RAM to run the Linux version of the Docker Engine, before adding constraints imposed by running apps.
day2punk 2y ago
awesome, thank you for the information.