XMPP Service Operators - 2020-11-22

Hello I was told that some people here might run an self-hosted XMPP server on Raspberry Pi.

Is anyone where doing that?

Link Mauve is running it on worse

My Olimex Lime 2 is definitely better than an original Raspberry Pi!

nobody is buying the original rpi anymore

Ah.

(I hope, at least)

I wish there was a decent arm board with nvme… storage is always the worst in these devices

(I don’t even want nvme speeds, I just want reliable storage at least as fast as sata3)

you can use external drives over USB mathieui

that is true

or maybe on the gpio

mathieui, my Switch is heavily bottlenecked by the microSD storage…

unsurprisingly

And attaching a SSD over USB 2.0 is, well, sad.

pi 4 has USB 3

the usb-c is not usb3?

yeah pi4 has usb3, which is good

I don’t think the dock exposes USB 3, but maybe it does?

I’ll test that.

ah, no, I was thinking of a generic usb-c dock

Oh, I could try my PinePhone’s. ^^

but depending on what you want to do the pi can be good or wrong

thewetcrab: > Hello I was told that some people here might run an self-hosted XMPP server on Raspberry Pi. > Is anyone where doing that? Yes, what's the question?

hey, anyone here clustering ejabberd?

looks like no one? What do you mean by clustering? Do you want to build up a server cluster? ✏

we have set up a cluster, but are stuck with http uploads not working in a cluster

they're not synced with mnesia it seems

so i was wondering how people do uploads with a cluster

I understand. I'm only using prosody so I can't help with that. ✏

raucao, maybe you just need to setup some kind of filesystem replication for the httpupload folder, if it isn’t in mnesia? (I don’t use ejabberd though)

Arne, the prosody.im docs should cover this

i was thinking about filesystem replication, or rather something like s3fs, but iirc it actually throws errors and fails the upload when connected to the wrong node

I've read the docs and It worked actually but than there came an issue with connecting to ejabberd servers

raucao: I'd recommend using `mod_http_upload`s `external_secret` mechanism and handle the actual HTTP upload with one of the implementations listed on <https://modules.prosody.im/mod_http_upload_external.html>.

Apart from that I'd recommend against using Mnesia no matter what 🙂

that's for prosody, no?

raucao, the part listing external component implementations is not prosody-specific

oh, i misread that

thanks

so the normal http upload module in ejabberd already supports uploading to external servers

got it

Yes.

as we're using nginx for everything, that perl module is just what the doctor ordered then i guess :)

thanks