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Is federated matrix / synapse actually usable now with large groups? any alternatives? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys!

A year or so ago I tried hosting a federated matrix and synapse server. While at the beginning it seemed nice, the moment I tried to join a large room it died completely for 10-20 minutes while blasting my DNS server with 10K+ requests. Sometimes at the end it wouldn't join, while filling the logs with errors. It really didn't seem like a good user-experience. Ironically, one of the groups I tried to join was the support group, but I failed, because it was too big.

I am wondering if it has improved since, or it's pretty much the same.

At the same time, I'm also wondering if there's a good, fast self-hosted alternative, that kinda just works.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I have a few matrix servers, one has 1200 members, there are no such issues you describe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Are they federated? Did you change anything from the default / recommend settings?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

They are all federated yes. I did cluster some synapse services but besides that pretty standard configuration.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! I might give it a try again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I must stress though that all my matrix systems have unlimited RAM and CPU at their disposal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, I'd assume 8GB ram (ddr4 3200) dedicated to it and 4-6 ryzen (5700x) cores should be enough. Especially if I'm planning to host it for a max of... 30 users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I guess, if not, you can always add more.

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