Comment on System requirements for a Matrix server?
Yaky@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
I have ran Synapse natively on 1 CPU 1GB RAM VPS for years. But it fills up a lot of disk space, eapecially with larger rooms, so get at least 100GB? (I had 20GB on my VPS, and with 4 regular users, was using up 15GB)
If you are looking at (new) official ESS Community, they recommend 2 CPU, 2GB RAM minimum for Kubernetes.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 days ago
You can set it to use object storage instead, much cheaper
iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 days ago
Could you expound on what you mean, or how to go about it? Links to documentation would be appreciated.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 3 days ago
I’m not sure your level of understanding of cloud infrastructure, so let me know if you need me to go into more detail. Disk storage, like what is attached to a VPS/VM is very expensive, and it’s the 100GB drive you have attached. What is much cheaper is object/blob storage, known in AWS and most cloud providers as S3. This is far far cheaper for many reasons.
Matrix (and really I should say Synapse, what I use) can be configured to save images, photos, uploads, etc to save to a blob storage “bucket” instead of disk. So you can lower your disk from 100 down to something lower because your data is stored in blob storage (fully encrypted). For synapse, the module you need is here: github.com/…/synapse-s3-storage-provider
iamthetot@piefed.ca 3 days ago
Cheers, I appreciate you taking the time to write it out. I’m definitely no pro but I’m on my way to learning this stuff. I’ve heard of S3 but never used it. Maybe I’m oversimplifying, but it just sounds like dedicated cloud storage, maybe that has been optimized for efficiency?
Where I’m at right now is considering using my own storage. I have a lot of platter space, which yes yes I know, that is far from ideal but I was going to try it out and see just how bad the performance was. I’m aiming to host for a pretty small community (>50, probably even >25).