My relay is on fire right now, the latency has 10x'ed today based on results from nostr.watch
Discussion
I'm genuinely excited to see so many new people discovering nostr and using my relay
You can definetly see when #[2] posted about nostr on Twitter:
Is there any plans on creating incentives to keep relays up and running? They look like LN routing nodes and maybe it makes sense to monetize them...
seems like with small start up things like this, usually you want to get people really on the platform before trying to be too heavy handed with montezation. Unless there was a way that people didn't find unintrusive and didn't turn them away.
Maybe some relays could charge microfees for connection or maybe they could charge for each note posted. 1 sat/post would be really acceptable and would prevent spam...
that seems reasonable. And yea to prevent spam makes sense. I just think you'd create a lot more resistance for adoption this early in the game.
Yes, this is basically the way stacker.news handles monetization. It sucks that people have to pay to speak though, especially if no one runs free relays. You could also have companies sponsoring relays to keep them open and free for everyone to write to.
definitely an opportunity for paying for extremely-high-performant relays with LN.
i would pay $4/month (and 12 months up front) to have access to a relay that guarantees vicious uptime
All day long.
relays are free to monetize however they’d like. @fiatjaf has an example on GitHub already that charges sats to be able to publish to that relay.
Yes, that's exactly what I thought. Prevents spam and gives the "node" runner an incentive to keep it up and running...
Is there benefit to publishing to a specific relay?
decentralize the network. Damus’ relay is having scaling issues. If we spread the load around more evenly everything will load more quickly for all users.
Well, as a solution for today, you could charge a fee and whitelist paying pubkeys for example.
Our charts are similar
how to get listed there?
I think you need to make a PR here https://github.com/dskvr/nostr-watch. Someone else added my relay.
Yeah seems a lot of relays are struggling. Find getting fetches of past data slow. Updates of current posts seem to be going OK though.
What hardware is that running on and which implementation?
Currently it's just running on a cheap VPS on Digital Ocean. 2 GB ram, 25 gb ssd, 1 vCPU.
Interesting, what's the bottleneck so far?
Seems like CPU usage is bottlenecking a bit but I'm not sure. Have to take a closer look to be sure.
please let me know if you do find out, running a relay at a comparable hetzner server and want to know what im getting into :D
Best instructions to follow to setup a relay? Raspberry Pi 4 good for this?
from @andreneves https://andreneves.xyz/p/set-up-a-nostr-relay-server-in-under
https://t.co/hDzOHdgsE4 quick one and pretty good
zebedee.cloud nodes are HOT right now
LFG! What specs do you guys have on that thing?
Haha, maybe a little too hot! Thanks for putting up `wss://nostr-2.zebedee.cloud` tho, that seems to work great!
I have set up a Grafana dashboard with some relay stats here for anyone interested:
https://nostr-stats.oxtr.dev/d/gVIqZLH4z/nostr-rs-relay?orgId=2