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Leniwcowaty :linuxmintnew:
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Hmm I'm at a crossroads...

I self-host my Matrix instance, have some encrypted rooms there, chat with people from other instances. Works fine.

But Hetzner just raised the prices, and my backups are getting bigger and bigger. It's now 8 Euro / month, and if the backups keep growing at this rate, by the end of the year it could be 10-12 Euro / month.

What do I do... Suck it up, or just switch to public instance...

Difficult choices...

#matrix #selfhosting #tchncs #choice #linux #federation
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Raison d'Γ‰tat · 3w
Can you buy your own hardware? Second-hand?
:debian: πšœπšŽπš•πšŽπšŠ :cmx_leaf: · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqh2fakd6aavy9tjyldv9g6s7w5qn8h3f9twt35wcleqjfgp8d74rs2fcyls Check the retention settings. Compress the database too: https://github.com/matrix-org/rust-synapse-compress-state
Chrysanthos · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqh2fakd6aavy9tjyldv9g6s7w5qn8h3f9twt35wcleqjfgp8d74rs2fcyls yeah that email was painful.
Matt Knight (KN6HTM) · 3w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqh2fakd6aavy9tjyldv9g6s7w5qn8h3f9twt35wcleqjfgp8d74rs2fcyls do you have an option to m any of it out of Hetzner and onto local hardware? That’s how my Mastodon instance is running for example. I use a Hetzner VPS as a layer 2 proxy to send encr...
Leniwcowaty :linuxmintnew: · 3w
As it turns out - my wife's old laptop happens to be a perfect homelab Matrix server. Just needed to disconnect and rip out the broken screen, disable GPU in BIOS, take out CD drive and a few misc stuff not needed in the server (like SD Card reader) and it runs nicely! i5-4210U, 8 GB RAM, 480 GB S...