Limiting factor will probably be network - if you hook it up with cable, it should be fine
I just use my (static) IP directly with port forwards on my router.
Sure, I get hundreds of login attempts every day, but that’s just life on the internet. Just secure your stuff and you’re fine.
Yes, like with everything else you self host.
You could also use some paid service like Cloudflare if you want to hide it for some reason.
But generally people are overly protective of their home IP. What’s the danger? DDoS?
People know my physical address but my house hasn’t been burned down yet…
Even on a crusty old laptop you can easily serve hundreds of users with Mumble
Mumble was the primary choice for EVE Online groups.
You can literally have thousands of users on the same server.
In EVE, during big fleet fights (like 1000+ people on the same “team”), you can have a hierarchy of fleet commanders/wing commanders/squad leaders where voice travels down the chain of command, but not up.
Also the certificate based security with ACLs is just unmatched. You can set it up exactly how you want.
Also easy to integrate with, which is important for something like EVE.
Ventrilo was awful, having huge delay. Also no persistent chat.
TeamSpeak is proprietary and required a license for more than 8 users iirc. Chat might have been persistent?
Mumble was/is king in terms of voice chat. Open source, fully featured, strong certificate based security, best latency. It’s used as backend in many big games, too. No persistent chat, though.
We used IRC for chat and Mumble for voice like 10 years ago when I played Eve Online. Works great!
It is, and people are sharing all the knowledge in the world, in a way that was never possible before.
Just because an AI-driven botnet is flooding it with bogus articles, and mainstream entertainment is full of brain rot, it doesn’t mean the internet isn’t incredibly useful, to the point that many people would struggle with daily life without it.
How is the Internet not a network of knowledge open to anyone??
It’s full of crap, yes. Back then it was just much smaller, but still very much crap-filled.
You don’t have to be an adult to post malware and hire DDoS botnets
In my country literally everyone still uses Facebook and Messenger for that simple reason: everyone they know uses it.
I’ve always been against Discord and I miss the Mumble+IRC days, but Discord is just the default now and it’s not going away
No global keybinds is a huge dealbreaker for me
Like what?
SSL is so simple and automatic with certbot.
Then there’s CORS if you really need to load resources from other sites, but you won’t need that for small sites.
Making the backend is easier than ever. It’s much harder to make security mistakes nowadays.
And if you don’t know what you’re doing, just ask an LLM if you made any fuckups…
Corporate servers will usually have some degree of SIEM implemented, and at least automatic audit log monitoring.
At the same time, taking over exposed machines has never been more difficult.
This. People are overly paranoid nowadays.
I have had SSH open directly to my main PC for 15 years and never had any issues except spam logins. Just disallow password logins and you’re fine.
Same with :443 to my nginx.
Except for needing bnc to keep your nick on some networks, it works very well imo
The reality is that most backends don’t use compiled languages, but stuff like PHP, Java and Python.
NodeJS scores very high on performance, concurrency, and especially IO, in that category.
And calling it abysmal compared to compiled languages is not fair, but yes, there are much better alternatives.
I hate Discord passionately. I miss the days of Mumble + IRC
I’ve had 1 faulty driver since 2011, so I just downgraded in 10 seconds and waited for the next patch
He made a loose nazi joke like 10 years ago and the reaction was hilarious. He’s definitely not a nazi