In reply to @jamii:scattered-thoughts.net
What kind of server hardware is required for joining high-volume rooms? (I would ask on #synapse, but I can't join it 😆)

Hi rjbadger,

One of the few compromises that we have made with the Small Hosted Homeserver product is a limitation on the size and complexity of the rooms that they are able to join. This limitation is necessary to ensure that joining large rooms does not consume all of the server resources and result in poor performance for you or other users on your server. Small Hosted Homeservers are able to join over 99.99% of all rooms that are visible to matrix.org, so this really should not be a problem in most cases. However, bridged rooms can be very complicated, due to the number of state events generated by people joining / leaving on the remote side of the bridge etc., so are more likely to be too large to join (at the moment). The limit on the size or complexity of the rooms that can be joined are not set in stone, and we are continuing to work to increase these limits and reduce the resources required to process these complex rooms.

If you wish to upgrade your server to a Medium, please send us a message from https://modular.im/about#contact while logged in and we will upgrade your server for you.
Please see https://modular.im/services/matrix-hosting#pricing for more details about our plans

In reply to@inc:matrix.org
With Modular being European I just wondered why is the pricing in $. Will I be billed in my own currency £ and I thought I saw somewhere ( I can't find it now) that there was a deduction if I paid for a year instead of monthly. thanks.

Hi! quick question regarding how the Modular pricing plan works, I'm in discussion with an organization that might be interested:

Only users with an account created on your matrix homeserver would be counted on the Modular.im plan (so you could just limit that to your core team). Since Matrix is an interoperable protocol, users from another homeserver (matrix.org for example) could still join a room on your server and talk with all users in that room without being themselves counted.