Comment on Matrix on Raspberry Pi
poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Matrix needs fast storage, and a lot of it, even if you only use it for bridges. A RPi5 with a good amount of NVMe storage will probably work, but if you only want to use it for bridges I would rather recommend to set up an XMPP server with Slidge which gives you better clients and can run on a RPi4 easily.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 months ago
How much is “a good amount”
poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Completely depends on your use, but it is basically ever growing and larger than the typical cheap VPS includes. A few tens of GBs at least.
Spaenny@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
I’m unsure why he mentioned a good amount, as I am across several large spaces on the matrix using Synapse and have accumulated approximately 13GB of data in >1 year. I must clarify that I am the sole user of my instance.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 months ago
That’s quite big for a raspberry pi. Going to upgrade an old 2018 gaming computer into a server now. All it needed was a hard drive and a wifi antenna (My dad won’t let me run an ethernet cable to my room ☹️). I was running out of Google storage anyway for my photos, so I’ll set that up as well.