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Since December I've been running a jitsi instance just for family and friends. It's been working well for me, and I like that I can just send a link to anyone and they can click it and join the call in a browser without messing around.

Edit: since this in HN, I'll mention too that I don't even bother with passwords. I set up basic auth on the endpoint for management and room creation, and just leave the room(s) open. For a low key chat-with-friends-and-family setup, it's great and I haven't had to touch it since I set it up.




Hosted at home? If so do you make everyone to use a VPN?


I host jitsi and other things at home, no VPN.


No, it's hosted on a hetzner server.


How much are you paying monthly for it, if you don’t mind me asking.


It's about $40/month, but it's my personal server for everything else too. Hosts some web radio projects with liquidsoap and icecast, some generative audio experiments, and so on. It's still probably more server than I need.

Edit: remembered that wrong. It's $66/month. But I'm using an instance much larger than you'd need to just run jitsi.


You can get so much mileage from a $40 hetzner instance. Mine is doing all forms of useful things. My only critique is that latency to storage boxes is awful (and storage is otherwise really pricey).


https://www.hetzner.com/sb

You'll find plenty of decent ones here for ~€40/month.




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