how does it work?
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that doesn’t answer my question.
data storage and transfer is expensive, especially in the cloud. I’m curious how the service works on a technical level.
Check their site. It's all explained.
I did check their site and was unable to find any technical details. the closest thing I could find is the bulleted list you screenshotted.
looks like it just makes a PUT request to $API_BASE_URL. not really what I’m after but thanks anyway.
Hey ben, I forgot to link the docs:
https://github.com/lovvtide/satellite-web/blob/master/docs/cdn.md
The backend is Cloudflare R2, which does not charge for the data transfer, only storage. Satellite CDN is essentially a wrapper for R2 that handles auth with nostr, computes NIP-94 params (e.g. torrent sha256 and torrent infohash) for each file uploaded, and indexes the files that have been uploaded.
It's perfectly scalable because I've just replicated R2's pricing structure.
awesome! I appreciate the transparency and that’s a clever solution wrt data transfer!
glad to see some new models for data storage in nostr.