You are running a synapse server on a residential network? Wild.
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It's dendrite, but yeah, I've been doing it for years
Would probably be best to move to a vps no?
Should definitely get a new modem though. Surprised they didn't supply you with one.
I don't run any of my services on a VPS for privacy reasons. They all run on my own hardware completely under my control and supervision. I also don't currently have the money to pay for the extremely powerful VPS(es) I'd need to run all my services. I have over 50 running.
Running a comrade-adjacent communication server on a residential IP is probably worse for your privacy than using a cloud provider. Especially considering how many other instances will try to talk to yours.
I understand the cost argument completely. I'd only really recommend using a VPS for the Dendrite server, just so your identity isn't linked to the server...or at least reverse proxy from a cloud provider so your IP isn't exposed by running it. Would also be considerably cheaper than running the homeserver itself.
There's already a proxy involved. My actual residential IP is not public. The traffic itself is also encrypted end to end so the VPS provider never actually gets to see plaintext traffic.
Dendrite is at least significantly lighter on resources. How well does it run for you? Any significant hiccups or maintenance burdens?
It runs quite well actually. I run it on a single board computer and haven't had any issues apart from one time when a bug caused message delays and I had to downgrade for a little while until the next release.