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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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[–] ItsGhost 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lots of decent suggestions here so not going to repeat them, but I do have a couple of my own if using synapse:

have plenty of RAM
have plenty of CPU
have plenty of DB storage space
use Postgres as your database, SQLite sucks

Basically synapse is just a resource hog, and you need to plan for that. The database itself grows quicker than you’d expect as well

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

I thought that I could run the server on an old and not very good computer. Is not it?

[–] ItsGhost 2 points 9 months ago

You can use old machines for all kinds of servers, I’ve got a stack of old laptops running a Kubernetes cluster, but synapse would push some of them possibly further than they can go so I have it on my more powerful NAS, and even then it isn’t exactly speedy at times