Good Morning fellow nerds,
I'm setting off on a journey to self-host a small Matrix server for my direct relatives and wife to use instead of whatsapp. Can you guys recommend any resources or communities before I start purchasing hardware?
This will be a private server only used by 5-10 people mostly from their phones.
What should I have into consideration?
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I have been doing exactly this for the past six months or so - if you aren't concerned about federation and are happy with a small private server, the hardware requirements are minimal. I run mine on a ~2010 era Dell 'SOTR' edition (side of the road) that I got for about 10 bucks at a junk shop.
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Awesome thanks for the feedback. I'm planning getting a 7th gen i5 NUC and it's going to run alongside a couple other micro services.
Think that will do the trick - just double checked and mine is running on a xeon E3-1290, that's a Sandy Bridge chip, so think 2nd gen! It's got 16 GB memory and an SSD and is perfectly happy running the matrix server, a minecraft server for my kid, immich for photos, a wireguard tunnel for external ssh access and an rsync server for backups of other machines. Even still has some legs left for video streaming and light gaming.