Jitsi Hosting on Your Own VPS
Video conferencing with no participant cap, no time limit and no account required.
Size a server for Jitsi
Every stop is a real configuration you can deploy. Priced per month and billed monthly, exclusive of 18% GST.
What Jitsi is
Jitsi Meet is an open-source video conferencing platform. Participants join a room by URL with no account and no client install, and it does the things people expect: screen sharing, chat, recording, and dial-in if you configure it.
The hosting characteristic that matters is bandwidth, not CPU. Jitsi's video bridge routes streams rather than mixing them, so it forwards a great deal of data without transcoding most of it. A meeting with a dozen video participants moves a lot of traffic, and that — rather than processor load — is what determines how many concurrent meetings a server supports.
The second characteristic is latency sensitivity. Video conferencing degrades visibly with round-trip time, so the server should be near the participants. For a team in India, an Indian region is the difference between a call that feels natural and one where everyone talks over each other.
“Jitsi Meet is a set of Open Source projects which empower users to use and deploy video conferencing platforms with state-of-the-art video quality and features.”
Why run Jitsi on a VPS
Indian regions, which for a latency-sensitive workload is the whole ballgame.
No participant caps or meeting time limits imposed by a plan.
Meetings run on your own domain, with no third party in the media path.
Root access for video bridge tuning and port configuration.
Jitsi features
Browser-based joining with no account or install
Screen sharing and in-meeting chat
Recording and live streaming
End-to-end encryption for supported configurations
Lobby, passwords and moderator controls
Mobile apps for iOS and Android
Calendar integrations
Jitsi hosting requirements
The recommended starting point for Jitsi, not a hard floor — size it on the sliders.
| Memory | 4 GB for small meetings; 8 GB for larger or concurrent ones |
|---|---|
| CPU | 4 vCPU — the video bridge is the busy component |
| Storage | 40 GB, considerably more if you record |
| Operating system | Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, which Jitsi packages target directly |
| Installs on | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Debian 13 (Trixie), Debian 12 Bookworm, AlmaLinux 9, AlmaLinux 8, Rocky Linux 9, Rocky Linux 8 |
| Ready in | About 6 minutes |
| Smallest server | 2 vCPU · 4 GB memory · 20 GB disk |
How deployment works
Jitsi Meet is installed with Prosody, Jicofo and the video bridge, behind TLS on your own domain. The bridge needs its UDP port reachable — this is the step that breaks when a firewall is too tight. Bandwidth, not CPU, is usually the limiting factor on concurrent meetings, so watch transfer as well as load.
What people run it for
Internal meetings
Team calls on your own domain, with no seat licensing.
Client calls
Send a link; nobody needs an account or a download.
Teaching
Classes with screen sharing and recording, without per-student pricing.
Confidential discussion
Media that never traverses a third party's infrastructure.
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