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What are the pros/cons to use Nosflare compared to classical Nostr relays with strfry, nostream or nostr-rs-relay?
Excited to unveil #Nosflare a serverless #Nostr relay purpose-built for Cloudflare Workers and the Cloudflare KV store.
This relay is designed to be easy to deploy, scalable, and cost-effective, leveraging Cloudflare's edge computing infrastructure to provide a resilient relay for the Nostr decentralized social protocol.
Check it out https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare
Discussion
Many advantages! It's serverless... So you don't have to mess with configuring a webserver like nginx/caddy, or deal with a SQL database, or have to worry about resources like RAM, or worry someone will DDoS the relay.
Since it uses a Cloudflare worker and KV, it means the data is stored in all of Cloudflare PoPs around the world, which means the relay data will load from the nearest server for that person using the relay 😎
pros - DDOS protected - distributed entry points - no DB maintainnence
cons - Snowden cannot use such relays
Correct, not able to be used as onion relay, but if configured right (like I have) the relay can at least not block Tor users and be accessible by them