Yes, agree. Running a nostr relay is equal to running the own btc node. 👍

I've set up mine last week on linux. Was a steep learning curve. I'm not a programmer or know much about linux. But liked the challenge.

This instruction was helpful:

https://usenostr.org/relay.html

Might also help you.

You can check it out/connect to the relay if you like. I deployed it together with my website https://www.hifish.org which is very basic but I continue working on it 😊