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?
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.
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 AddressesI 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/sSo 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.
You might wanna check out this article: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp/
I found it after I already settled with snikket.im The mobile application is reliable and there is Conversation as desktop client. From my point of view, the audio and video quality of Snikket are way better than Matrix.
It worth mentioning that initially I wanted to set up a Matrix server also, but I had second thoughts because I knew how resource intensive are the mobile app and the server also.
12 to 40 bucks a year depebding on which racknerd vps yiu need. I spend aboit 15 a yaet on mine but it only has me and my facebookessenger slidge bridge