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Matrix on Raspberry Pi (feddit.uk)

submitted 4 months ago by Flax_vert@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi! I've done some research on self hosting Matrix for Matrix Bridges on a Raspberry Pi 5. Some people have said online that Matrix will be too beefy for an RPI due to large federated chatrooms and information. However, would it still be worthwhile installing just for my own bridges for social media, and maybe as a secure way for friends to interact?

Thanks in advance!

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[–] poVoq 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Matrix needs fast storage, and a lot of it, even if you only use it for bridges. A RPi5 with a good amount of NVMe storage will probably work, but if you only want to use it for bridges I would rather recommend to set up an XMPP server with Slidge which gives you better clients and can run on a RPi4 easily.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How much is "a good amount"

[–] poVoq 1 points 4 months ago

Completely depends on your use, but it is basically ever growing and larger than the typical cheap VPS includes. A few tens of GBs at least.

[–] Spaenny@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm unsure why he mentioned a good amount, as I am across several large spaces on the matrix using Synapse and have accumulated approximately 30GB of data in >1 year. I must clarify that I am the sole user of my instance.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

That's quite big for a raspberry pi. Going to upgrade an old 2018 gaming computer into a server now. All it needed was a hard drive and a wifi antenna (My dad won't let me run an ethernet cable to my room ☹️). I was running out of Google storage anyway for my photos, so I'll set that up as well.