The operators/owners are shown behind the address. Performance will differ and is based on at least those factors : 1) performance of the server itself 2) speed of internet access, also depending on your location.

My https://at.nostrworks.com has 6 vCPUs and 16GB RAM and can handle many more clients. It is hosted in Vienna/Austria and therefore especially suited for nostriches in Europe, but of course everybody has quick access.

I might try and figure out a monitoring dashboard on a development relay so you can see the performance of my relay. At the minute it is 4cpu and 24gb ram and 100gb disk. Hosted in London

Also, how do I actually enable one of them? Is it manually?

Thank you, will get it updated

Think of paid relays as a low-cost ($0.25-$5) alternative to hosting your own. Read access is open to all and paying just allows your notes to be part of the “non-spam” stream the clients are beginning to show.

Paying supports the decentralised infrastructure that makes nostr work and puts your time and attention behind bitcoin away from spammers.

If it’s free, you are the yield.

I think it's important to realise that there will always be free relays. You'll never get locked into a paid only nostr environment.

My relay is there to give a little something back to the community. There's a small 8888 sat charge but you won't see any spam on it, simply because spammers won't pay if there is a free relay they can spam instead.

Additionally, the paid relays I've used aren't swamped with users so as a result, they are quick.

Enchanting Bedbug,

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If you want to try the relay, send me your invoice and I'll repay it.

https://private.red.gb.net

Got more cool*

Have added you to the list at https://relay.exchange and signed up for 1,337 Sats 🤙