https://satellite.earth/cdn is a seriously good thing.
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Very clean design too
how does it work?
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.
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Is it based in IPFS or something close to it? Or solely the Nostr protocol?
Meh
Cool! The nostr ecosystem is growing fast!
🤙🏻🍀🐳 
They've got me hooked. Good stuff
What do you like about it, they way they charge you for everything?
I think you've done an amazing job with nostr.build.
I build Satellite CDN as a way to solve the problem of hosting *very large* files that can incur significant hosting costs.
If I didn't charge money it wouldn't be scalable.
Thank you! I didn’t mean for that to come off snarky, I was seriously wondering if the charging by size/time was what he liked about it, since it is done well. I eventually want to do something like that with larger files and non-account holders..
Oh, and very glad you built this! It is very cool. I am a strong supporter that there should be multiple nostr image hosting options, and ideally all with different features, use cases.
Very interesting!
Yes, yes it is, today's latest amazing wonder. Starting to become routine.
Thanks for the whole world paradigm change with nostr thing by the way, your timing was impeccable, was cool of you to do.