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- Comment on PSA: If you are running a Matrix homeserver written in Rust, you'll need to upgrade NOW 6 days ago:
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- Comment on Self-hosting with an old laptop 1 week ago:
That doesn’t seem to be too old of a laptop at all. One thing I’d say is to use an SSD as the main partition you run your apps on, as HDDs might be quite slow.
If you wanna keep the VPS, you can use it as a public inbound gateway + outbound VPN for your homeserver, so traffic looks like it comes in and out of your VPS. I wrote some notes on setting up Tailscale in such a manner, but there’s plenty of other options.
If you don’t wanna keep the VPS, you can front your inbound traffic with Cloudflare Tunnels, and use a VPN for outbounds. If you don’t have any apps that make frequent network requests (e.g. a Matrix server), then a VPN may not be necessary
You should leave SSH on, especially if if you wanna run it without a monitor, but use key auth and limit it to your LAN only
- Comment on Is (Matrix) Element Server Suite overkill for a dozen users? 2 months ago:
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I think it’s better hooking up Element Call to your current setup, and remove Element Web if you can BYO client.
For a more lightweight alternative, I personally find continuwuity to be reasonably stable for the specs you mentioned. It does admin tasks in an #admins room, use an embedded database, and has no client UI so less containers needed. So continuwuity + EC should be able to run under the constraints you mentioned
The lightest would still be any XMPP server, though its functionality does differ from Matrix overall