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Proposal to move meet.fsci.in to India - to my Mumbai Server.

S sahilister Public Seen by 69

With the recent submarine cable cuts and increased latency to Hetzner/Germany/EU, an earlier lingering thought of moving our Jitsi Meet instance to India came back. 

From maintaining meet.fsci.in since the time it started (and running personal Jitsi instances even before that), I know resource-wise there isn't an issue co-locating the service along with other services. I have been running a server for my mirror node for quite some time in Mumbai, India, on Contabo. I'm proposing moving meet.fsci.in to my server.

Benefits:

- People behind BSNL, Vodafone Idea, and their downstream ISPs would certainly see the highest benefit due to this latency decrease due to known lower quality of international transit of these ISPs. In general, everyone would get better experience.

- Would save us from issues like when Jio randomly started blocking Hetzner for some reason some years back.

- In any case, as the service wouldn't have to worry about the cost as running another service on the node for me is negligible cost. 

To reduce bus factor, I have already discussed it with Ravi Dwivedi. He'll have access to the node if I'm not available and anything goes wrong with Jitsi, though all these years we didn't have to ever nudge the Jitsi service. It mostly works and just need updates, which I in anycase do roughly once a month on my mirror nodes. 

Let's say, I keep this proposal open for 1 week and if there's no strong objection, I'll start with the migration process. What're your thoughts?

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Pirate Praveen Mon 29 Sep 2025 2:57PM

@sahilister I think missing debian stable release - or not having it on sid/backports after a few months of a release indicates we can't really depend on the packages. So I'd recommend going with Docker in this case (I also prefer native packages when available, but if it is not available we should go with other options). It is easier in case of jitsi meet since we don't need to migrate any data. Just setup on the new server and update the DNS entry.

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sahilister Thu 2 Oct 2025 11:38AM

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sahilister Thu 2 Oct 2025 1:14PM

Migration done for now. We'll probably move to native packages when the missing dependency is fixed in Debian package for Jitsi Meet.