Run your own relay.
1. Sign up on GitHub.
2. Sign up on Railway.
3. Go to https://github.com/Cameri/nostream
4. Click on the purple Deploy on Railway button and follow the prompts.
After a full day of research on the subject, I can now easily conclude that running a relay via Nostream is the easiest and most adapted solution to scale relays and help with adoption.
Limited technical knowledge is required as i could do it myself and will most certainly help to further decentralize relays and support Nostr.
I think everyone should run a Nostream relay today. Follow these steps:
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Can you post step by step? I deployed and now what?
You will see an address on the settings tab. That's your relay address. Connect to it.
You can inly see a set of metrics there in the settings too but that's about it for now. You can't manage it per se, it will just back up your notes and others can connect to it too.
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Address should look like [alphanumeric].up.railway.app. You can change the alpha numeric part by editing and just putting Nakadai or your name. To change the full name i added CNAME records on my domain DNS. It has been propagating for 3 days, so not yet sure here but i will know more soon.
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I see, I did this, but it keeps crashing. I chose my repo to be private. Is that why it crashes?
My repo is set to public. Try that and redeploy.
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stiill throws me an error:
Node.js v18.14.0
node:internal/fs/utils:347
throw err;
^
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/app/resources/default-settings.yaml'
at Object.openSync (node:fs:600:3)
at Object.readFileSync (node:fs:468:35)
at SettingsStatic.loadAndParseYamlFile (/app/src/utils/settings.js:27:57)
at SettingsStatic.loadSettings (/app/src/utils/settings.js:53:39)
at App.createSettings [as settings] (/app/src/utils/settings.js:72:41)
at App.run (/app/src/app/app.js:34:31)
at Object.
at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1226:14)
at Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1280:10)
at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1089:32) {
errno: -2,
syscall: 'open',
code: 'ENOENT',
path: '/app/resources/default-settings.yaml'
}
Node.js v18.14.0
Ah yes. #[5] is working on it, due to his latest update. He will let us know once he tests it himself. I am on the previous version (i can't update yet). He is aware of the issue.
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