Matrix Conduit Homeserver on an Anubiz Romania VPS
Conduit is the Rust Matrix homeserver. Compared to Synapse it is dramatically lighter (typically 300-800 MB RSS for a small community), uses RocksDB as the embedded datastore, and ships as a single binary. Conduit is appropriate for personal homeservers, small private communities, and admins who do not need every Synapse feature. The trade-off is feature gap - some advanced Matrix features land in Synapse first.
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Why Conduit Over Synapse
Resource footprint. A Conduit homeserver serving 50 users in a handful of federated rooms runs in 500 MB RAM where the equivalent Synapse needs 3-4 GB. For an admin running a personal homeserver on Mini-V tier, Conduit fits cleanly while Synapse does not.
RocksDB embedded means no PostgreSQL to tune. The cost is harder horizontal scaling - workers are a Synapse architecture, not a Conduit one. Conduit is for vertical scale only.
Conduit Limitations
Conduit is feature-complete for Matrix r0 and most r1 spec, but some Synapse-specific features (advanced module system, multiple worker patterns, certain admin APIs) are absent. Most users do not notice. If you are building a community that needs admin tools (mjolnir-style room moderation), Synapse is the safer pick.
Sizing on Romania
Mini-V handles up to 100 active users. V handles 500-1000. Federation traffic scales with rooms joined, not just user count, so a user heavily in many rooms uses more resources than a passive user.
Federation Note
You moderate. CSAM at infrastructure layer on credible notice. Defederation policy is yours; Conduit admin API supports federation blocking.
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