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What types of services are you not willing to self-host? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Tinnitus@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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For example, something that is too complex for your comfort level, a security concern, or maybe your hardware can’t keep up with the service’s needs?

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A public Matrix server. Its just a never ending black-hole of ever increasing storage requirements and the software is too buggy to not become a maintenance hassle.

I do run a Synapse server for bridging purposes, so I am not just talking in theory.

[–] ellipse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

XMPP is safer and lighter anyway

[–] u_tamtam@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago

And so damn easy to self-host in general. Ejabberd is batteries included down to offering stun/turn for audio/video calls, Erlang is just unrivaled when it comes to hot reloading so updates are effectively zero-downtime (unsurprising considering all the business critical environments it's deployed).

At first (and especially because I went with Matrix originally) I wouldn't think of self hosting all my instant messaging, but in retrospect, ejabberd is one of the easiest services I've got to maintain. I highly recommend everyone to give it a shot, especially to all the matrix refugees to whom it was a surprise/disappointment.