Hey guys!
A year or so ago I tried hosting a federated matrix and synapse server. While at the beginning it seemed nice, the moment I tried to join a large room it died completely for 10-20 minutes while blasting my DNS server with 10K+ requests. Sometimes at the end it wouldn’t join, while filling the logs with errors. It really didn’t seem like a good user-experience. Ironically, one of the groups I tried to join was the support group, but I failed, because it was too big.
I am wondering if it has improved since, or it’s pretty much the same.
At the same time, I’m also wondering if there’s a good, fast self-hosted alternative, that kinda just works.
Are they federated? Did you change anything from the default / recommend settings?
They are all federated yes. I did cluster some synapse services but besides that pretty standard configuration.
I must stress though that all my matrix systems have unlimited RAM and CPU at their disposal.