Show HN: An Almost Free, Open Source TURN Server

How to Self-Host an (Almost) Free, Open Source TURN Server: The WebRTC implementation posted here relies on the PeerJS Cloud Server. It's pretty reliable (I haven't seen any major outage in 5+ years), but hitching yourself to someone else's wagon always carries an element of risk - if they decide to pull the pin on their project that page will die, possibly without much warning. A secondary concern is that the Cloud Server relies on Google's TURN server when required. Google has a history of axing services and products, sometimes with little or no notice. Additionally, some people have privacy concerns about running their data through anything associated with the big G. So is it possible to create an independant, open source TURN server that you completely control at minimal expense? Yes it is, with the possible irony that here we are relying on the free tier of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Plenty of people have been burnt by Oracle in the past as they too have a history of ax ... Read full article.