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Anyone run a matrix server in the cloud? How much does it cost you? (programming.dev)

submitted 15 hours ago by zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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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[–] liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

For something like that, you'd want a VPS with 2-4 cores, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB SSD. Any less and you'll start to run into problems when adding bridges and stuff.

So, it's really a matter of what deals you can find in that bracket, and if you care about the geographical region it's hosted in. Usually https://lowendtalk.com/ is a good place to start looking at options.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Love Lowend. Just grabbed this deal from massiveGRID. Never heard of them, but I took a chance;

4 Shared Intel Xeon CPU vCores
8 RAM DDR4 ECC Registered (GB)
256 Primary High Availability SSD Storage (GB)
20 TB Guaranteed Internet Traffic
1 IP Addresses

I paid $141.28 for 3 years, and replied on their forum post for Lowend and they added 1 extra year of service for free, and activated lifetime pricing. So it works out to be about $2.95/mo which is a damn great price. The only real drawbacks are the network is 1 Gbps shared** and no IPv6 (they're adding it over the next several weeks looks like).

**speedtest;

[root@dev ~]$ speedtest --secure
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Massivegrid (xx.xx.xx.xx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Wnet (New York, NY) [0.09 km]: 2.429 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 1028.91 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 997.58 Mbit/s

So not absolutely mindblowing, but you seem to get the full 1 Gbps, which is great. I contacted support and they'll be offering VDS plans soon with access to higher than 1 Gbps speeds. Super happy so far.