People managing high traffic nostr relays, what's your experience been like? How hands on is sysadmin? What are costs like? Preferred relay software?
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Didn't try yet, running behind with all current plans, not adding new ones feels like only achievement in my time management skills.
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.
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.
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.
Update:
Will recently shared his dedicated server info for Damus Relay