Matrix homeserver hosting in Switzerland

Synapse, Dendrite or Conduit on hardware sized for federation — your homeserver, your room IDs, your retention policy.

Switzerland: Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP). Swiss court order required for any disclosure. Foreign DMCA has no statutory effect.

See plans from $39.99/mo About Switzerland

No KYC DMCA ignored Crypto only 60-second deploy

1 Tbps

DDoS absorption

41s

Median deploy

Zürich (CH-ZRH)

Datacenter

$39.99

Entry plan / month

Why Switzerland

The Switzerland case for Matrix homeserver hosting

Switzerland is the strongest privacy-law jurisdiction we operate. The Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP, revised 2023) puts the onus on the data controller, not the host. Swiss court orders are required to compel any disclosure; foreign DMCA notices have no statutory effect at all. Network is Tier-1 with direct peering to Frankfurt, Milan, and Paris. Zürich is the comfortable pick for workloads where the legal posture matters as much as the throughput: mail servers, financial nodes, journalist infrastructure.

A Matrix homeserver gets heavier as the federated room set grows — Synapse's Postgres database can outgrow a 60 GB disk in a year of active federation with 50 active users. Sized to vps-business at 240 GB NVMe minimum; for a public homeserver expect to outgrow that into ded-shield within 12–18 months. The CPU profile is bursty (encryption key shuffling), not sustained.

Workload alignment

What Matrix homeserver hosting gets from Switzerland

Federation port 8448 open. Stable IP for federated room consistency.

NVMe Postgres path. Synapse media + db + workers fit cleanly on Business and up.

Worker-pattern Synapse runs comfortably on Pro; CLN/LND-style 4-worker layouts on Bastion.

No filtering of federated traffic. End-to-end encryption fully intact (we never see message bodies).

No retention beyond 24 hours of operational logs. Federation graphs not stored.

Plans

Matrix homeserver hosting — Switzerland plans

Plans below ship from Switzerland (Zürich (CH-ZRH)) by default. Pick the cheapest that matches your projected load — hot-resize is live.

VPS

Business

Intel Xeon Gold 6430 · Zürich (CH-ZRH)

6 vCPU
16 GB DDR5 ECC
240 GB NVMe
5 Gbps unmetered

$39.99/mo

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VPS

Pro

Intel Xeon Gold 6430 · Zürich (CH-ZRH)

8 vCPU
24 GB DDR5 ECC
400 GB NVMe
5 Gbps unmetered

$54.99/mo

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Dedicated

Shield

AMD EPYC 7313P · Zürich (CH-ZRH)

16 cores · 32 threads
64 GB DDR4 ECC
2× 1 TB NVMe
1 Gbps unmetered

$79.00/mo

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Sysadmin FAQ

Matrix homeserver hosting in Switzerland — questions answered

Synapse, Dendrite or Conduit?

Synapse is the reference (Python, batteries-included, heaviest). Dendrite is the Go rewrite (lighter, more modern, less mature). Conduit is the Rust minimalist for small homeservers. For 1–10 users: Conduit. For 10–500: Dendrite or Synapse. For public/federated: still Synapse.

How much disk does a year of federation consume?

For a homeserver with 20 users in 200 federated rooms: ~30–80 GB after a year (Postgres + media). Public homeservers in popular rooms can hit 200 GB in 6 months. Plan for outgrowing the smaller VPS tiers within 12 months if you're running federation hot.

Can I run a Matrix bridge to IRC or Telegram on the same box?

Yes — bridges are userland processes (matrix-appservice-irc, mautrix-telegram, etc.) and add minimal load. The IRC bridge can be chatty on memory if you join hundreds of channels; size accordingly.

What about Switzerland specifically — any local data-residency rules I should know?

Iceland and Switzerland are outside EU GDPR jurisdiction (Iceland is EEA but with lighter enforcement). Netherlands and Romania are EU — GDPR applies, but there are no Matrix-specific obligations beyond standard data-controller hygiene. Pick by user latency, not legal exposure.

Do you backup the Postgres for me?

No managed backup layer. Snapshots happen hourly with 7-day retention (panel-level, not Postgres-aware). For point-in-time DB recovery, run pg_basebackup + WAL archiving on your own box or to a second cryptoservers VPS in a different jurisdiction.

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