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summary: Support for running "ad-hoc" servers
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created: 2015-03-08 18:55:23.0
creator: matthew
description: |-
  Lots of people have said they'd love to run a matrix server, but it'd cost too much to maintain a VPS.

  It'd be fun to do the thought experiment to work out really what's needed to run a server clientside, e.g. on a phone.  Obvious things that come to mind are:

   * A dialect of the s-s API which lets a firewalled server always initiate connections (be it long-poll or websockets or TURN or whatever), whilst somehow handling new invites?
   * .well-known URIs or dyndns SRV or whatever for discovering where the server currently is (if folks are discovering it)
id: '11175'
key: SPEC-122
number: '122'
priority: '3'
project: '10001'
reporter: matthew
status: '10100'
type: '2'
updated: 2016-10-28 16:27:06.0
votes: '0'
watches: '2'
workflowId: '11275'
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actions:
- author: richvdh
  body: 'Migrated to github: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/434'
  created: 2016-10-28 16:27:06.0
  id: '13284'
  issue: '11175'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: richvdh
  updated: 2016-10-28 16:27:06.0