Setting up a droplet manually is easy – if you are new to DigitalOcean, visit their website for more information on setting up a droplet. I'll assume that you can create a DigitalOcean account on your own.
You will be pleasantly surprised at how little the disk footprint is.įor my videoconferencing server, I'll use DigitalOcean, which refers to servers as "droplets." When creating the droplet, I'll ask the cloud platform to install Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) as it has a shelf life until April 2028. To get an insight into all the features Jitsi offers, I will install the full suite of Jitsi software. Also, I'll assist in switching off as many network ports as possible so that you're only exposing the HTTPS port to the public, and I'll provide some fine-tuned firewall rules. I'll walk you through what you need to get Jitsi up and running. In this article, I'll show you how to use Jitsi to create a fully encrypted, open source, free-to-use, videoconferencing service. Jitsi also allows screen sharing, voting with your hand, and online chat. You do not need an account to start a video call with Jitsi, and it is very browser-friendly and mobile-compatible. Jitsi has been around since 2003 in one incarnation or another, with continual fine tuning over recent years. Jitsi offers secure and scalable videoconferences, either as a standalone app or embedded into your own web application. For an overview of the project, visit their website or check out their GitHub page. , has an Apache2 license and includes Jitsi Meet, a free video conferencing platform, and Jitsi VideoBridge, a Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) that powers multiperson videoconferencing. After a little bit of reading, I discovered Jitsi, a truly impressive open source project for building and deploying secure videoconference services. This led me to think about open source video conferencing options. Halfway through a phone conversation amid the doom and gloom of the global pandemic, someone complained about commercial online videoconferencing services creaking at the seams due to the massive increase in demand.
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