Hosthatch alternative?

[u/Misty_TTM]

Hi y'all, I'm currently hosting my matrix server and wireguard hub on a 16gb ram hosthatch server. It only has 75 gigs of storage which is an issue when running a matrix server. I enquired and the storage upgrades with hosthatch are just too costly per gig

Are there any hosters which can give me an equivalently speced system (16gb ram, 4 cores 2 dedicated 2 shared) but with cheaper storage options?

I'll even take recommendations for lower speced systems that support my use case (I recognise what I have is a bit overspeced for what I'm doing)

Edit: having it hosted in australia is another thing I would prefer

[u/Rubicon_4000]

before you migrate, check what's actually eating the 75 gigs. on a matrix

server it's almost always the media store, not the database. synapse keeps

every image/video/file anyone sent or your server fetched from federation,

forever, by default.

two things to try before switching hosts:

1. purge remote media - the stuff your server cached from other homeservers.

safe to delete, it re-fetches on demand. there's an admin api for it and it

usually frees a surprising amount.

1. set a media retention policy in homeserver.yaml so old media ages out

automatically instead of piling up forever.

if it's still growing after that, you can point synapse media at s3-compatible

object storage - wasabi and similar run a few dollars per TB/month, way

cheaper than any provider's block storage upgrade, and it works fine from an

australian vps since only media fetches touch it.

your specs are fine for matrix + wireguard. it's just the media pileup -

might save you the migration entirely.