I have a server that is currently running mail in a box and I have unlocked admin on nextcloud so I can enable the talk feature
The problem is that if I want to make a call to another user that is not on the same network I need a turnserver.
My question is, if it is possible to install and run a turn server like coTURN on the same server as everything else and if yes any guidance will be appreciated.
Read this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NextCloud/comments/104eqv8/nextcloud_talk_and_turn_server_performance/
It seems painful and you need lots of resources for e.g. 20 simultanious connections.
There seems to be a way to use Docker container on a different instance just for Talk, it comes with the Turn server.
https://hub.docker.com/r/nextcloud/aio-talk
It says at least 2GB of RAM
It is not even going to reach 3 simultaneous connections and my server has 3 gb of ram so performance is not my problem
I don’t think it is a good idea. The separate docker container instance seems to me more plausible. Never tried it but you need bandwidth, RAM and everything.
In my experience I really wouldn’t install another piece of software on the MiaB server. The server is doing quite a bit already with postfix, postgrey, bind (DNS), spamassassin, dovecot, nginx, nsd4 (dns), nextcloud, roundcube, php-fpm, ufw, fail2ban, management python services, etc…
I think there is a way to possibly get two nextcloud’s to talk to each other with server-to-server federation that works out of the box (built into nextcloud) – Might want to check out https://help.nextcloud.com/
My recommendation would be to get another server with nextcloud running on it, figure out how to federate them then install whatever on the second box for the talk feature.
As I understand nextcloud from this projects perspective its basically only there for CardDav and CalDav (Contacts and Calendars) and literally NOTHING else.
“The only absolute requirements are an address book and a sane upgrade path. Calendar, calendar sharing, and file sharing are nice-to-haves, but let’s not get carried away. - JoshData”
I have configured a second VPS dedicated solely to coTURN at turnsrv.domain. net, and Nextcloud immediately recognized it. For my purposes, which involve chatting and experimenting with friends, a modest 2GB 1vcore CPU VPS on MS Azure is quite adequate. Meanwhile, everything else is running smoothly on my Mail-in-a-Box server.