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Not sure what is the answer for the first question, since my experience were limited to manage small-medium traffic relay (20+ GB/day). Maybe top relay operators will share their experiences later. I think top relays have big traffic more than 1TB/day.

> Hands on is sysadmin

Basic skills to manage linux or unix server such as configuring webserver (nginx, caddy, etc), setup proper firewall, ssh and account security, manage running service/apps (systemd, sysinit, etc), and basic linux/unix command knowledge were needed.

> Costs

Costs for running small-medium relay around $10/month . Varies depend on server provider.

> Preferred relay software

Currently using strfry. Other popular choices are nostr-rs-relay, nostream.
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BlackCoffee 1y ago

Thanks. I found strfry to be pretty stable, I've heard people commenting that it is an abandoned project but I see commits on the repo.

10 USD per month seems like a reasonable cost. 1TB / day wouldn't be too expensive looking at AWS's pricing. I wonder what storage is like on those relays.

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Rif'at Ahdi R 1y ago

Yes, it is really stable. Damus relay and nos.lol (top relays) use it. Most likely the maintainer was occupied with other things previously.

If you want to match top relays storage i think you can probably need around 500GB. Assuming you want to store all previous events from 2022-2024. You can still probably have half of the capacity left.