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Toying with the idea of setting this up for myself, maybe a few bridges, maybe a few group chats on matrix itself. What kind of cost should I expect?

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 15 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

I pay 6.84€ a month for a VPS plus 4.65€ a year for the domain. That gets me a VPS with 4 cores and 8GB of RAM so in addition to Matrix, I can also fit a few Fediverse services, Nextcloud, a homepage, ...

[–] Brumefey@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Since you seem happy : Any recommendations for VPS provider ?

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I'm with netcup.com and I've been happy. But some people complained their support isn't the best and they sometimes don't answer. I'm not sure about the details as I've never needed support. Maybe you want to ask someone else. And make sure to choose the correct server location as most of their servers are located in Europe and you don't want that latency if you're living in the USA.