anyone successfully deployed Prosody on bare metal, in-house? ejabberd also I guess although I’d prefer the former. don’t need federation, fine if comms are for this instance only.

I got a couple of prosody (and synapse) installs for clients running without too much bother, but they are all on internet accessible VPS, handling security, storage, comms, etc.

a while ago I tried (and gave up) to run it on my bare metal behind CGNAT and use a VPS for proxy (wireguard). a buncha issues arose, as far as I can remember around SSL termination, proxy passthroughs issues, some cert failures, and such.

no matrix suggestions please, as well as rocketchats and friends.

so before I try again, does someone run such a thing?