Toying with the idea of setting this up for myself, maybe a few bridges, maybe a few group chats on matrix itself. What kind of cost should I expect?
You might wanna check out this article: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp/
I found it after I already settled with snikket.im The mobile application is reliable and there is Conversation as desktop client. From my point of view, the audio and video quality of Snikket are way better than Matrix.
It worth mentioning that initially I wanted to set up a Matrix server also, but I had second thoughts because I knew how resource intensive are the mobile app and the server also.
@tuxec @zygo_histo_morpheus Is “soyware” related to the pejorative “soyboy”?
I don’t know. I read it as “an interior piece of software”
Matrix servers have the problem of highly variable resource use.
Basically if you only use it for some light chatting with friends and family and some niche topic public rooms it isn’t very heavy.
But if any user of your homeserver joins any busy rooms or uses the bridges to join busy public Telegram channels or such, it will quickly outgrow the resources of a reasonably priced VPS.
Personally I would rather recommend you to set up an xmpp server, which can include a gateway to Matrix and other services, but architecturally is much more lightweight and has better mobile clients.
