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?
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;
So 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.