Zulip is a free direct messaging tool for communication within a remote team or organization. This group chat software is suitable for building an independent collaborative messaging platform.
Zulip has a well-developed chat system with channels, topics, and subscriptions, many integrations with other products, and constant updates, so it could be a good platform for chat with remote teams.
Zulip has a well-developed chat system with channels, topics, and subscriptions, many integrations with other products, and constant updates. It could be a good choice for chatting with remote teams.
Zulip chat is a corporate messenger with the ability to create threads, just like in email. With a real-time messaging system, you can set up team communication, create channels to publish news and project information, and employees can communicate with each other via private messages.
Beget VPS with pre-installed Zulip is a threaded messaging platform deployed for you and ready-to-go, with a configured domain name and SSL certificate.
Installation package information
- Ubuntu 22.04
- Zulip 9.4
- Certbot
Zulip server installation and initial configuration
During server creation, you will need to provide the following additional information:
- The domain that will be used to access your Zulip instance. If you don't have a domain in our system yet, we will provide you a free .beget.app technical domain with a pre-installed SSL certificate.
- The name of your organization or community.
- The full name of the administrator that will be displayed in the chat messages on behalf of the administrator.
- Admin Email address that will be used to log in on behalf of the administrator.
- Admin Password for logging in.
Once the server is created, the deployment of your Zulip will begin. This process usually takes about 10 minutes. Once completed, your server will be ready to run and you will receive a notification.
Working with Zulip
To access Zulip, open the page in your browser at https://my-domain.beget.app (my-domain.beget.app is the domain you specified when you created the server).
Use the following credentials to log in to Zulip for the first time:
- Email: the administrator email you specified when you created the server.
- Password: the administrator password you specified when you created the server.
To create a separate account with user rights, open the "
Manage your organization" section in the main menu (accessible by clicking on the icon in the upper right corner), go to the "Invitations" section, click on "Create a link for the invitation", confirm its creation and copy the resulting link.After making all the desired settings, sign out of the administrator account, check your email, and continue to work under the user account.
Read the official manual to get acquainted with all the features of the platform.
We wish you productive work with your new Zulip!
FAQ
No, there is no limit on the number of users, messages, or uploads. The number of concurrent users Zulip can serve depends only on the performance of the server.
If you start experiencing stability or performance issues as your workload increases, we recommend that you change your virtual server configuration to a more efficient one. It can be done in your control panel.
To fully restart the Zulip services, follow these steps:
- Connect to the server via ssh:
ssh root@my-ip(my-ipis the IP address of your virtual server). - Change the user to
zulipwith the commandsudo -iu zulip. - Run the command
~/deployments/current/scripts/restart-server.
You can also restart just some of the services. To do this, use the supervisorctl restart <service-name> and service <service-name> restart commands.
Detailed information about Zulip services and troubleshooting can be found in the official documentation.
