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Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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That’s way too expensive. My $80/month server bill can support millions of users per month but would only get me Edit: my guess is I misunderstood who they are targeting with this. Thought they were targeting developers who want to integrate Jitsi with an existing product.

Millions of users per month doing video conferencing?

No. I meant for a normal SPA or CRUD app without video.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

#52
I tried to run a Jitsi server. It's a madness full of Docker impossible things to run and a very long and confusing configuration file.

I wonder why can't these things be provided as binaries with a simple set of settings.

Now they offer Jitsi as a service for free up to 25 users? That's great though. It should cover 99% of normal people use cases, so no one will use meet.jit.si anymore.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

#53
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Hey all, saghul from team Jitsi here. Didn't expect this to spread so fast, thanks everyone! Happy to answer any questions you may have!

Hi saghul, thanks for dropping by.

We’re currently running self-hosted Jitsi Meet in production and have been very happy with performance - particularly stability. We would however be interested in switching to JaaS as we’d like to get away from managing our own infra and just host a landing page through, e.g., NextJS on Vercel, with a JaaS iFrame.

The landing page mentions deep customisation but when clicking through to the documentation I see only custom branding, etc., through the developer web console. We have some customisations on the front-end (custom kick messages, auto-enabling lobbies, etc). Is it possible to make these sorts of customisations to JaaS? It seems like an iFrame is the recommended integration so would be great to get a sense if any of these things are possible. Could you speak generally to the degree of customisation possible outside of the developer web console?

Thanks in advance.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

#54
post #23

Hey all, saghul from team Jitsi here. Didn't expect this to spread so fast, thanks everyone! Happy to answer any questions you may have!

Are you concerned amazon will take your business?

No. They have a similar offering of their own. We also run our infra on AWS so they are getting business from us already.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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post #51
post #39

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Millions of users per month doing video conferencing?

No. I meant for a normal SPA or CRUD app without video.

Then what are you trying to compare? The pricing includes all video traffic relaying, which is the non-trivial part of these types of setups.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Hey all, saghul from team Jitsi here. Didn't expect this to spread so fast, thanks everyone! Happy to answer any questions you may have!

Hi saghul, thanks for dropping by. We’re currently running self-hosted Jitsi Meet in production and have been very happy with performance - particularly stability. We would however be interested in switching to JaaS as we’d like to get away from managing our own infra and just host a landing page through, e.g., NextJS on Vercel, with a JaaS iFrame. The landing page mentions deep customisation but when clicking throug…

> We would however be interested in switching to JaaS as we’d like to get away from managing our own infra and just host a landing page through, e.g., NextJS on Vercel, with a JaaS iFrame.

This is indeed what we had in mind when building JaaS.

> We have some customisations on the front-end (custom kick messages, auto-enabling lobbies, etc). Is it possible to make these sorts of customisations to JaaS?

Depends on exactly what. As we just launched we are learning what our customers want and adding new APIs and more customization options pretty rapidly. Please get in touch and let's discuss what APIs / customizations you'd need.

> Could you speak generally to the degree of customisation possible outside of the developer web console?

As you mentioned before, the iframe API is indeed the recommended way for integrating.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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Personally, I feel like this is really generous pricing Compare it to, e.g. Slack ( https://app.slack.com/plans/T01JN93179R?geocode=en-gb ) or Zoom ( https://zoom.us/pricing ) Notwithstanding any accounting issues raised by worble, which I'm sure will be ironed out over time

They must be targeting people who just want to use this for internal purposes, rather than developers who want to integrate Jitsi with an existing product.

Yes, exactly. This offering is a Zoom alternative

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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post #41
post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s way too expensive. My $80/month server bill can support millions of users per month but would only get me Edit: my guess is I misunderstood who they are targeting with this. Thought they were targeting developers who want to integrate Jitsi with an existing product.

Personally, I feel like this is really generous pricing Compare it to, e.g. Slack ( https://app.slack.com/plans/T01JN93179R?geocode=en-gb ) or Zoom ( https://zoom.us/pricing ) Notwithstanding any accounting issues raised by worble, which I'm sure will be ironed out over time

This is like people saying fastmail pricing is reasonable because other providers gyp you too.

Re: JaaS: The team that builds Jitsi can now also run it for you

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post #52

I tried to run a Jitsi server. It's a madness full of Docker impossible things to run and a very long and confusing configuration file. I wonder why can't these things be provided as binaries with a simple set of settings. Now they offer Jitsi as a service for free up to 25 users? That's great though. It should cover 99% of normal people use cases, so no one will use meet.jit.si anymore.

Over at The Document Foundation, we use a Salt setup with no Docker: https://git.libreoffice.org/infra/salt/+/refs/heads/master/j...
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