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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 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Very interesting stuff, thanks!

I am not saying it's exactly the same but that does sound similar to what I am gonna try out. Main my first successful spin up I just have everything in a frankly small VM running on an ssd, but next I'm going to play around with mapping the crucial stuff on that ssd but putting media on my 8TB platter.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That's how I started too, so very good plan, and good way of thinking ahead. Ssd will be fast so the app will load fast for your users, and images can take a few seconds and no one will mind.

Make sure you have a solid backup plan for both

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 points 11 minutes ago

I try to always follow 3-2-1 backups!