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Is it possible to package up a relay that can be a subscription as in AWS or Azure, GCP or any provider? Has anyone done this? Or perhaps a curl deploy-nostr-relay.sh | bash that starts one up in digital ocean ?
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The Fishcake (nostr.build) 1y ago

It is possible, but the main problem is the underlying data substrate. You need something that scales well and horizontally and does not rely on a health of a single server. The problem, nobody besides one person that I know of, is working on it. It should also be economically viable, so not just using some expensive DBaaS 🐶🐾🫡

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deeznuts 1y ago

I would run a few relays if I could just spin up some droplets in DO

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The Fishcake (nostr.build) 1y ago

More relays is not the solution, client has finite resources and expensive bandwidth. 🐶🐾🫡

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deeznuts 1y ago

Please expand on this if you have time

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The Fishcake (nostr.build) 1y ago

Relay is just a DB, that’s all. You have a DB that has a JSON WS interface that client connects to. Having more DBs just increases the number of small DBs that run in the vacuum. If nobody writes to it then it is useless. 🐶🐾🫡

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cloud fodder 1y ago

you can install a relay hub on any linux machine, docs here: https://github.com/relaytools/docs