Taking the relay down for some maintenance, shouldn't take too long
Discussion
Back up again, cleaned out some spam and tidyed up the DB
What relay do you run and how do you identify spam to clear?
wss://nostr.oxtr.dev
I don't have any good anti-spam measures atm. It's hard to figure out what is and isn't spam in a free and open relay. Need to do some research into how we can provide free relays with good UX wrt spam.
Sorry my bad I meant which implementation are you running? Rust, typescript etc... I'm running the rust relay, not sure how I'm supposed to maintain it yet
Oh, yeah me too. Running nostr-rs-relay:0.8.8.
Scsibug added support for GRPC so we could try to build plugins for the relay now to filter spam. Just need to figure out how we can detect spam, which is something I don't think will be very easy.
Good to see this conversation. I'm n the same trouble 😅
Are you running it on AWS, or do you use a self-hosted solution? And how powerful should it be?
I mean, half of the nostr is using your relay, I guess 😂
Lol, there are some other relays with more traffic than I have but there's definitely a lot of traffic to my relay though!
I don't have a good enough self-hosted solution yet so hosting on a Hetzner VM atm.
I ran mine on a 5 USD/month until Jack showed up. Now it's running on a VM with 8 Intel vCPUs and 32 GB RAM. It works but IMO it's still way too slow.
I see, and yes, Jack made a fuss, hehe.
Thanks for the info, tho. I want to run the relay as a backup solution.
And, of course, a 'paid relay' is the way.