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by barbs 2266 days ago
I don't think it's quite as expensive as you might think. Unfortunately I don't have sources right now but from memory the server component mostly handles session management.

Will try dig up some posts...

EDIT: Looks like one person self-hosted an instance on a Hetzner cloud instance for 2,49€ a month. https://dev.to/noandrea/self-hosted-jitsi-server-with-authen...

Regarding the official Jitsi meet site: "On a plain Xeon server (like this one) that you can rent for about a hundred dollars, for about 20% CPU you will be able to run 1000+ video streams using an average of 550 Mbps!"

https://jitsi.org/jitsi-videobridge-performance-evaluation/

I'm not a backend guy so not sure if this takes everything into account.