Running your own relay(self hosted) is rewarding and honestly not that hard. It could take in as much or as little data as you like.
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Do you know about nostr1.com
I know it through https://relay.tools 😅
Cool stuff, but for me personally, If I had to use someone else's computer I'd just use a paid relay. The whole point is for the thing to run on my machine and write to my hard drive 😛
We need youtube tutorials. I consider myself technical person but I gave up setting up my personal relay multiple times.
Besides that, people hit another obstacle... Docker, Rust...
Right now, you need to be a senior dev to set up a relay imo. We need simple setups so even junior devs can handle them.
What I want, is spinning a relay on my Raspberry pi with a 1- 10TB HD drive attached to it :) I don't wanna pay for another VPS.
I ran nostr-rs-relay on a local machine with a cloudflared tunnel for months, no need to pay anyone a sat. Feel free to AMA.