Hi. I’m kinda of a noob in the world of self-hosting and matrix, for that matter. But I was wondering how heavy is it to host a matrix server?

My understanding how matrix works is each participating server in the room stores the full history and then later some sort of merging happens or something like that.

How is that sustainable? Say in 5 years matrix becomes mainstream and 5 people join my server and each also join 3 different 10k+ people rooms with long histories. So now what I have to account for that or people have to be careful of joining larger rooms when they sign up in a smaller-ish server?

Or do I not understand how Matrix works? Thanks.

  • banerEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I have been self hosting matrix for 3 years as a family chat with no federation and it is very good, but I tried installing another server for testing federation and it was so bad and slow, as you say everything is saved back in your server and for me it was unusable you really need a very capable machine to run federated matrix even using matrix.org is sometimes slow, I read somewhere that even selfhosting synapse is always communicating and sending data to matrix.org so I decided to try xmpp and installed prosody and let me tell you that is absolutely better, a very low spec machine prosody is very stable and is capable of federate without any performance issues.