The admission fee for nostr.wine is now 18888⚡️ sats. This change will help us continue to pay for the beefy servers required to run our relays (particularly the filter).
You should see an immediate performance increase on nostr.wine in terms of latency.
To all of the early users who took a shot on us and helped us test. You da real MVPs.
Cheers 🍷
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What are the beefy specs?
Same specs just added a 2nd server for nostr.wine and re-configured the entire implementation. New software, new payment processing, new relay backend, new life.
What same specs? Curious on RAM and cores needed for the big time server game.
You still using custom Nostream?
Sorry! Forgot who I talked to about it. 2x 8c/16gb for nostr.wine (currently overkill), 1x 24c/48t/128gb for the filter+aggregator.
Will likely need another big machine to support the aggregator eventually.
Are you think to peel off the database to separate server so you can dynamically spin up workers for processing notes?
I think long term something distributed is going to be key. We haven’t decided yet exactly how we’ll do that.
Katie and I have some oddly extensive bare metal Kubernetes experience for another application we run so we may eventually go in that direction. We could make everything a micro service and then scale them up/down as needed.
We want to start simple though.
daaang, i got in just in time
Keep up the good work!
Are we ever going to move to a pay/instance model? Probably makes better business sense, but maybe I’m wrong.
Love Wine Relay🤘
Not sure what the future holds. At some point my guess is we will have to move to some type of recurring payment to sustain the infrastructure.
Who knows though, it’s so early and there’s still so much changing. I think NIP42 and client authentication being implemented in clients is going to be an interesting change for paid relays to manage costs (readers are expensive, not just writers).
Caching/CDN can help reduce reader cost too
I predicted that the price of entry would get higher with your excellent service, so I entered early, cheers🍷
A smart bird. We are glad you joined us 🍷
Still worth every sat.
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