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  • TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca
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    3 years ago

    I have a small droplet on Digital Ocean that acts as a reverse proxy to another larger machine. I’m using Wireguard between the two machines to create an encrypted channel and so I don’t have to mess with the network firewall. It also gives me a separate network interface that I can control with a firewall on the machine itself.

    The host was an i3-4160 with 8GB of ram running Arch. It was hosting Synapse, among other things. I’ve recently upgraded to an i5-11400, but the i3 was working perfectly for Synapse.

    I tried federating it a couple years ago, but I stopped since I wasn’t sure at the time if I wanted to keep that particular domain. And since I was only using it for the two of us, I didn’t bother setting up federation again. I imagine that it would put a larger load on the system depending on what rooms you join.

    I’m not familiar with Ansible, so I didn’t go with their recommendation to use that. Instead, I used the docker-compose.yml from their repository and modified it for my needs: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/contrib/docker/docker-compose.yml

    Give it a shot though! Some people have said they’ve had trouble setting it up, but it’s been flawless for me.