So, I’ve had it up to here (^^^) with the family using WhatsApp, etc and I’m heading off into the land of XMPP to find a better solution.

I’ve got a Pi3 hanging off my pfSense firewall acting as a kinda DMZ box, so thought I could setup an XMPP server on it (Prosody?)

Any advice? Will the Pi crumble (see what I did there) under the pressure of 4 people using it?

Issues with proxying outside with a Lets Encrypt cert on the pfSense box, but maybe not inside the network?

“Better” server software?

Thanks

  • SolidGrueEnglish
    3•9 months ago

    News to me! Good to know, though.

    I think realtime media routed through the node back when I was running one, but that was quite a while ago now. It wasn’t bad for my crew, but load scales exponentially in those sort of applications as you take on endpoints.