I am the dev/admin for Corny Chat. I have it hosted with Contabo.
nostr:nprofile1qqsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqgswaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5q3gamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7hlt4qm is the admin for Nostr Nests.
Thanks for the information!
What tiers of resources are you paying for and what's the monthly total, if you don't mind me asking?
Also: do you plan to pay it out of pocket forever? Are there scaling or offloading (like to some kind of decentralized network of nodes approach) plans in the works?
Right now I have the lowest VPS plan available with 6GB ram, 200 GB SSD storage. This should be able to accomodate several users simultaneously. The peak traffic has been about 4 dozen users so far. Hosting and domain costs can be done for under $100/year making it affordable for any organization or small business wanting to spin up their own instance. In the coming months I'll introduce more ways that users can support the service to help spread the cost. Most of money out of pocket has been paying bounties for initial kickstart development before I began focusing 90% of my dev time on it. Im committed to keeping it up at least through 2025.
Thank you very much for the additional details.
When the time comes that my company can make your life easier, I'll be in touch ;) until then - thanks for the app! Looking forward to helping offset hosting costs once you roll that out
beware of fed hosting
Was that to me or Vic?
I'd like you to prove to Vic that you're not a fed
Uh okay. How would you like me to do that? I'm happy to do so.
Also if you're talking about the "offer" I made to him: the technology I work on is entirely open source and even the compiler binaries are human-readable. Nothing at any level relies on trust, from the apps to the kernel. And there is nowhere for attacks to hide.
When the time comes that individuals are deciding for themselves if they want to use our OS, they can audit the whole thing and make an informed decision. Its FOSS, not a service. You can run it on your own metal.
I don't think a fed would offer a trustless OS, so I'll accept that as proof
Lol thanks.
If you want to learn a bit more:
https://blog.vaporware.network/2024/06/04/plunder-explained-for-urbit-users.html
We'll be adding more blog posts and podcast episodes as the weeks go on.
We also presented our computational model at Lambdaconf 2024 and when the recording is finally posted that will be a great resource as well. It into depth showing how the OS is truly trustless.
You can't catch a break today with the fed accusations 🤣
Lolol glad someone else saw that.
I was in the shower earlier today stupidly pondering how one can prove to another's satisfaction that one isn't a fed. Seems impossible!
I guess it's a useful protective instinct for freedom tech, but it can also be a foot gun..
