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I asked this in the other comment, what is your server specs and user base? Constant pain as in moderation or server breaking ?

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Well I was running it on a 2GB VPS, I have since November switched to a 4GB VPS, no issues since then but it's still early days. I haven't benchmarked either VPS, the 2GB I had a single dedicated CPU core, some 3.5+ghz xenon. I didn't check what my cpu allotment was on the new VPS, it was a $65 a year black friday thing. Moderation is not an issue, I only have 5 users other than myself.

Here is the last time I complained about matrix. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25100873

I saw your comment and considered posting a facetious comment about how you would need 80TB of ram and at least twice as much disk space.... but that would add nothing to the discussion.

I think you definitely should try PostgreSQL

I am using postgresql now. That is not a silver bullet for anything though. I switched to postgresql early on (when I first started using matrix I think synapse only supported sqlite?) and I've had less disk space & memory trouble using sqlite than I have postgresql.

Of course I was using sqlite when there weren't nearly as many users as there are today or when I had federation disabled.

If that ID the case with you, what is the specs of servers running matrix.org? How can they scale so much?

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