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Self-hosting a Matrix server for 5 years (yaky.dev)

submitted 3 days ago by Yaky@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosting@slrpnk.net

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Experiences with the Matrix protocol, Matrix Synapse server, bridges, and Element mobile app. There are some you-just-have-to-know-this issues.

TL;DR:

Matrix Synapse: works fine, but requires constant manual maintenance.
Bridges: work pretty well.
Element: generally OK, some issues with timely notifications, no feature parity between Element Classic and Element X, terrible on-boarding (with current setup)

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[–] carbs@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm curious what maintenance you need to do each month, I've been running matrix for well over 5 years and I haven't done anything other the keep the docker/db containers updated.

Should I have been doing stuff? Now I'm worried.

[–] Yaky@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

For me, it was not monthly, but rather "when it bites you in the ass".

Delete all empty rooms and federated rooms without local users.
Clean up state_groups_state table.
Delete old media.

All of this is made worse by having more active users and made better by having a large hard drive (my VPS had 20GB, which I almost filled up with the db and media after a few years, with only few users)

[–] carbs@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Ah, makes perfect sense, I don't use the federation and I've got all media on a NAS with 24TB of space, so I've not really been concerned with space usage... I might want to do some house keeping at some point though.

Glad I hadn't missed any major.

Thanks for the reply.