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What's your preference for a text chat server (e.g. IRC/XMPP/Matrix/Zulip/etc.)? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There seem to be plentiful options for text chat servers, so I'm curious for those that self-host their own, what their preferences & experiences have been with them.

Also those mentioned in the title were just a few examples, if you run something else, e.g. Revolt or Mattermost or something else less popular, would be interested in reading about it!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine just stopped working when not on the local network and I haven't had the energy to find out why and then to fix it and then to convince everyone I'd brought in that this time will be different

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never used it in LAN. Always used a VPS for this with a domain name, no DynDNS or similar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How much does a vps cost running your matrix client? It can't be more than a couple bucks a month right?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I pay around 10€ per month. The VPS has more services than.just Synapse. Mastodon, Database, Immich, Nextcloud, gotify.... And a few more 😁

I use the VPS 2000 from NetCup

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I figured given that I'm on c/selfhosted that it probably wasn't only synapse just was curious about overhead.

I've got a little raid 5 8tb server under my desk that I just use locally to fuck around with/VPN back into my house/store larger backups on.

I'd never want to be using it to host anything like a website or service, so I'm always curious what the web hosters have and pay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine only works on lan. The ddns checks out, but clients over the internet get nothing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe a problem with portforwarding 🤔

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I checked that too. It's just cursed.