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as a relay, why should I not self-host it?
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Pip the WoT guy 5mo ago

good question. I think that over time the cost of self-hosting it will increase in CPU usage and most importantly complexity.

At the moment it uses Redis + SQLite, so you'll have to set up those as well. Also, the service is meant to run 24/7, so interruption in the service will decrease the quality of the results.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 5mo ago

this complexity issue is why my relay is completely standalone, and i am also of the opinion that an SQL/NoSQL/GraphQL database is totally not optimized for the simple queries of nostr. so it's not just more complex to set up, and thus more brittle, it's also crappier.