We found volunteers to continue #diaspora and #xmpp, but had to drop #matrix, which also made it possible to scale down the server and reduce monthly cost to 1/3rd.
@praveen Are you implying that matrix alone accounted for 66% of the cost? What other services (other than xmpp and diaspora) account for the remaining 33%?
@goku12 we were probably running a bigger server than necessary, but matrix was taking 800+ GB disk space. Synapse needs huge RAM as well. No one actually volunteered to continue running #matrix so we did not do an exact calculation. We are hoping to keep the db for 3 more months if someone wants to continue running it (since Infomaniak offers 300 Euro credit for 3 months).
@jabberati its a bit of chicken and egg problem, since we did not have many volunteers, we did not publicize this option for long and due to spam sign ups, we closed registrations. So pretty small numbers currently, but if we have volunteers we can offer this to new people.
I have been involved in running this service from the beginning, but new volunteers took over (Thanks to Dhanesh, @sahil and @rajudev for keeping it alive till now). Only if new people join in, we can continue running it. @_Y___h has already volunteer, but more volunteers makes the load on each one lesser.
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