Jitsi Meet public server?

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I haven’t looked into this topic in a while, having something at work that may require using personal devices and applications outside of company control for some meetings. Started looking into Jitse Meet again and seems like everything changed. I think there used to be a few paid tiers, one of which was cheap and probably the size I need. Do they no longer have those customized services? The only thing I see is the free use (no accounts needed).

I don’t currently have a VPS, and currently don’t have a static IP for my lab. The later is something I’m going to work on during a meeting Monday, it’s just easier for a lot of things when you want to remote into your lab to do “things” with a static IP (or even dynamic outside of CGnat) if can get there.

I may start looking into a VPS, if you are running a Jitse server on a VPS, do you have recommendations for the configuration? I might also want to put up a Netbird server, though I may just start paying them to host/reflect my Netbird needs (feeling like a freeloader).

If there are other audio/video meeting services that are recommended, I’d like to hear about them. I haven’t explored this topic since 2020.

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I ran a jitsi server for personal use and it was pretty good. I haven’t looked at it in a really long time. I do recommend a VPS for hosting. Keep that bandwidth off your company network for stability. I would also recommend the docker method for deployment to make it easy on yourself and simple upgrades.

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Thanks, we definitely need to keep this kind of stuff off of the company systems. I’ll look into some VPS this weekend, I’m guessing some of them might have an installer for Jitsi built in. If not I’ll ask some questions. Would be nice if the shared web host I already pay could handle something like this, but guessing they can’t or won’t.

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I ran jitsi on a cheap vps with docker just fine. you need udp 10000 and tcp 443 open for video and the webui. letsencrypt works out of the box with the docker compose. just watch the cpu if you get many participants