I'm toying with using Matrix or IPFS (my two primary interests atm) as a .. P2P layer. Which is to say, i have an app that shuttles thousands of byte chunks between instances of this app, and i need something in that network layer to do the shuttling. I of course could just use a centralized SSH server, but Matrix and IPFS both have be interested as alternatives.
With that said, doing this in Matrix would involve sending quite a bit of volume through Matrix. double digit GiBs of data every month in 10KiB chunks.
Would using hosting Matrix be bad for this purpose? I could of course self host, but A: i'd like to support Matrix, and B: if this is kosher i'd rather give Matrix my money, than give a VPS my money.
Does Element Home limit message sizes or message counts? Does it throttle? Caps would be bad for me (potentially), but throttling would be fine. I just don't want to abuse Matrix, and i'd like to support them with money i'm spending in this use case.
Depending on the data, it sounds like it might be more a job for IPFS. Matrix is best for passing around histories of JSON blobs no larger than 65KB. Whereas it sounds like you might be manipulating files rather than data objects?
Element Home doesn't have traffic limits currently, but all Matrix has rate limits (a few messages/s) to prevent flooding.
The bytes i refer to are immutable blobs, the content in an immutable content store. IPFS would hypothetically work fine, my only concern is having too much needless history. Eg, once all clients are up to date the history could be pruned.
There would be basically no need to store weeks/months old data, as i'd be just using Matrix for P2P not storage.
I'm toying with using Matrix or IPFS (my two primary interests atm) as a .. P2P layer. Which is to say, i have an app that shuttles thousands of byte chunks between instances of this app, and i need something in that network layer to do the shuttling. I of course could just use a centralized SSH server, but Matrix and IPFS both have be interested as alternatives.
With that said, doing this in Matrix would involve sending quite a bit of volume through Matrix. double digit GiBs of data every month in 10KiB chunks.
Would using hosting Matrix be bad for this purpose? I could of course self host, but A: i'd like to support Matrix, and B: if this is kosher i'd rather give Matrix my money, than give a VPS my money.
Does Element Home limit message sizes or message counts? Does it throttle? Caps would be bad for me (potentially), but throttling would be fine. I just don't want to abuse Matrix, and i'd like to support them with money i'm spending in this use case.