What you guys are hosting instead of Nextcloud? I'm sick of it. by dangernoodle01 in c/main@selfhosted.forum
What you guys are hosting instead of Nextcloud? I'm sick of it. by dangernoodle01 in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[-] dangernoodle01@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

A confirmed, yet still not resolved bug caused me and about 200 other people lose data (metadata) for tons of files. Well, at least 200 reacted to the GitHub bugreport I filled. I think you can easily find it because it's the most upvoted yet unresolved issue.

Besides this, it'd often give random errors and just not function properly. My favorites are the unexplained file locks: My brother in Christ, what do you mean error while deleting a file. It's 2023 holy shit, just delete the damn file. It's ridiculously unreliable and fragile. They have tons, thousands of bugreports open - yet they focus on pushing new, unwanted social features to become the new facebook and zoom. They definitely should focus on fixing the foundation first.

Be honest: Are you doing SelfHosting just for the sake of it - or do you have apps, that really improve your daily life? by dangernoodle01 in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[-] dangernoodle01@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Paperless, immich. seafile, nextcloud, minecraft, home-assistant, pihole, jellyfin - they all improve my or my family's life.

Is federated matrix / synapse actually usable now with large groups? any alternatives? by dangernoodle01 in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[-] dangernoodle01@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I'd assume 8GB ram (ddr4 3200) dedicated to it and 4-6 ryzen (5700x) cores should be enough. Especially if I'm planning to host it for a max of... 30 users.

Is federated matrix / synapse actually usable now with large groups? any alternatives? by dangernoodle01 in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[-] dangernoodle01@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I might give it a try again.

Is federated matrix / synapse actually usable now with large groups? any alternatives? by dangernoodle01 in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[-] dangernoodle01@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Are they federated? Did you change anything from the default / recommend settings?

Is federated matrix / synapse actually usable now with large groups? any alternatives? by dangernoodle01 in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[-] dangernoodle01@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I can't recall every minute detail I've delt with a year ago. I shared my past experience and asked if it would be more or less the same.

Is federated matrix / synapse actually usable now with large groups? any alternatives? by dangernoodle01 in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[-] dangernoodle01@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, so you never even had a matrix server hosted, but you're telling me I'm wrong. Hahaha!

Is federated matrix / synapse actually usable now with large groups? any alternatives? by dangernoodle01 in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[-] dangernoodle01@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry - so the default, recommended settings try to cache absolutely everything from a single group, including cat gifs posted 5 years ago? I'm sorry, but I expected the default settings more... sane?

Well, I wanted to try hosting myself, since I love self hosting things and people keep repeating how amazing Matrix is - my experience (waiting 20 minutes to join a single group, or it simply failing) didn't convince me. It's possible that I'm the wrong here, in that case I'm happy to hear solutions.

Is federated matrix / synapse actually usable now with large groups? any alternatives? by dangernoodle01 in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[-] dangernoodle01@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Not waiting 20 minutes in 2023 for a messaging platform to sync if I join a single group with default settings.

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Is federated matrix / synapse actually usable now with large groups? any alternatives? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by dangernoodle01@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Hey guys!

A year or so ago I tried hosting a federated matrix and synapse server. While at the beginning it seemed nice, the moment I tried to join a large room it died completely for 10-20 minutes while blasting my DNS server with 10K+ requests. Sometimes at the end it wouldn't join, while filling the logs with errors. It really didn't seem like a good user-experience. Ironically, one of the groups I tried to join was the support group, but I failed, because it was too big.

I am wondering if it has improved since, or it's pretty much the same.

At the same time, I'm also wondering if there's a good, fast self-hosted alternative, that kinda just works.

dangernoodle01

joined 1 year ago