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what should I know before hosting my matrix server (on my PC)? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to host my own server, but I would like to know what I should know?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

            
              how to use apparmor or selinux
how to run docker rootless
use a reverse proxy like traefik or nginx
use certbot or another way to get TLS certificates
use a firewall, use secure ssh
block spam traffic and matrix servers that host spam
host synapse and sliding sync

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

sounds complicated

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I mean you want to host an internet facing computer. That shit is poorly pretty complicated. But I think there are things that make that easier with presets etc.

I heard of people that Nix is awesome because there are preconfigured configurations, you apply them and also with your single config file you have the documentation of what you did.

https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.11&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=synapse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Can you advice me to try, if I have never done such things before, or is it better try something simpler?