Super exciting. Time to start bridging Discord servers to Matrix Spaces and encouraging people to switch, one community at a time.
Setting up a matrix server on an ec2 took a few evenings (lots of reading docs). Then, setting up discord was supposed to be more configuration…
Element has hosted instances for 10$/month and discord bridges for 20$/month?
Does anyone else run hosted matrix instances with bridges? I might pay 10$/month for that.
Or, are there AMI instances for that? I couldn’t find any.
I found the Ansible playbook [1] on GitHub extremely easy to use. As long as you know how to configure DNS records and firewalls, the rest is taken care of. This is what I use today to manage my Synapse server.
Also Oracle Cloud offers free ARM instances with 4 CPU cores and 24 GB of RAM, more than enough to run a very speedy Synapse server.
[1]: https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy