Your requirements sound a lot like Chrome Remote Desktop and it's pretty trivial to install, which might be a handy thing for family members that aren’t tech-savvy.
farcaller
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I don’t like helm, so I use nix to maintain my fediverse deployments in kubernetes. Typically that'd just autoupdate itself to new releases, but for lemmy specifically I upgrade by hand nowadays since one release some time ago broke my deployment and its schema change was incompatible with the automated rollback.
My setup is a combination of https://github.com/farcaller/nixdockertag (auto-updated docker imagesfor things where I fully own the deployments) and https://github.com/farcaller/nixhelm (for helm charts that I either consume verbatim PR have local patches on). Both just auto update nightly thanks to github.
PD delegates the whole prefixes, i.e. it allows the subrouters to ask for a subnet of the size they need.
I'd swap Prometheus for VoctoriaMetrics. It's a drop-in replacement with a much better resource consumption story and a few extra goodies.
There's way more and I already tried three implementations while trying to get a set of features I need. It's a wild west out there and the resource usage is way higher than e.g. hosting Prosody. Seemingly it has to do with chatrooms being a full mesh, but my single user server consumes about 700mb RSS and 2.4 gb VSZ which is kinda high.
In case if you e.g. have eth0 and eth1 and neither is guaranteed to be up. It's more of a router setup, though (Cisco routers are well-known to use the loopback interface like this).
It's much more than just "http requests", honestly. A Matrix server and e.g. nginx have very little in common.
That’s what their docs say:
At an absolute minimum, Dendrite will expect 1GB RAM. For a comfortable day-to-day deployment which can participate in federated rooms for a number of local users, be prepared to assign 2-4 CPU cores and 8GB RAM — more if your user count increases.
That’s not accounting for Postgres.
I got that. What I mean is that you can easily have a tiny 256mb VPS for a bunch of static websites or even some WordPress and the official matrix servers would require you to easily double or triple the bill.
I looked into matrix servers the other day for an unrelated reason and tbh the amount of resources they ask for is way more than you need for a webpage (dendrite asks for 1gb ram minimum for a number of users, and that's without accounting for postgres)
It really depends on the specific hardware. I have Mikrotik routerOS CHR that routes between VLANs at 6Gbit/s without breaking a sweat on a $300 intel box.
At the same time, some managed switches are dirt-cheap nowadays and they generally can push the traffic around as fast as it comes in.
It was my first introduction to the type-length-value concept over the network, seemed radically different from the text only IRC protocol that I knew back then. I remember how fun it was to write an elegant parser for the ICQ messaging, and how I ended up on somewhat a DOM model where I converted the on-wire format into series of nested objects. Not the most efficient idea, but it was neat.