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Unless I am blind or my search-fu is hugely failing me, I cannot for the life of me find any information on the recommended/minimum specs to self-host the matrix backend services. I'm trying to spin up a VM just to play around with it and see if I like it. Specifically, I'm looking at Synapse or Continuwuity. Any advice?

Looking for vCPUs, memory, storage.

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[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm eager to try out multiple things. Right now I'd settle for whichever I can get set up. The documentation for continuwuity is a little tough for me and my setup right now.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If that's hard, good luck with synapse then.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks, I'll probably need it! I seem to be able to follow along a little bit better with Synapse at least, and there's more troubleshooting stuff out there for it I think because it's more widely used.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Welp, I got Synapse deployed before Continuwuity lol