Hey y’all, this actually isn’t self hosting related, but who have you had good luck with for paid matrix hosting?

Right now, I do enough tinkering with everything that I would be willing to just pay to host a matrix server for my friends.

Unless it really is easy enough to do it on a synology nas for text/voice/screen share…but do I need to pay for a domain still?

We are (like everyone) on matrix.org now but realize we need to move eventually.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    The issue with moving all the time is my friends will be annoyed. Can we move without making new accounts and rooms again? They’ll ask why are we changing it again…you know how it is

    • stratself@lemdro.idEnglish
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      13 hours ago

      The easy solution is to choose someone other than matrix.org, get everyone over there, and hope it works out in the long run

      The technical answer is that if you own your domain name you can migrate from a managed solution to a selfhosted one with some caveats. If you can’t migrate the database, then some data will be lost (namely, unfederated rooms and local-only data) and your friends will likely need to do a few things (reset their passwords, and export/reimport their encryption keys). Unfortunately there are no database migrator between different server software right now