Was always a PoC and consist performance example. Most relays are single-point failure be it one server or all on Cloudflare (for example). One year ago was handling a lot of all nostr traffic one way or another.

Wasn't so much users are traffic. We had Los Angeles, Montreal, Helsinki, Sydney, Buenos Aires, and Montreal data centers with GeoDNS routing. Each relay synced with the others to have consistent data. While also syncing with about 10 of the other top relays to replicate their data. The current LMDB for strfry is 152GB (will be backing up and pruning soon). Was planning to have a separate "archive" relay for historical data (now on-hold).

Likewise! Thanks! Was mainly just stuff that took up what little "free time" I had. All good now!

I always went into the project with a disdain for paid models. For a while it was break even but with BTC going up the donations went down. If figured out a funding method could easily scale the network back up. I plan to share the Terraform/Ansible and design for anyone wanting to replicate too.

Yes, was a bit of a hiatus.

Was costing out of pocket around $1500US a month. Plus relayable was a target of a lot of Chinese and other DDoS attacks. So in addition to cost was time costs juggling it all. I had some family stuff took more of my time as well.

Hi all, been a minute. Life got busy.

Canada is crazy...

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/canada-moves-to-ban-flipper-zero-and-possibly-software-defined-radios/

GM!

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#RIP

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The first 45 I ever had when I was 5yo was this and Call Me. 🤣🤘

#facts

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Can use anything like a Raspberry Pi or similar with wifi USB or internal. Could use captive portal to make users aware of what it is or accept terms. Grab a valid Let's Encrypt cert when set up. Then just run strfry/nginx.

Must be that new Amethyst 🤣

9x9 here.

At least half of #nostr 🤣

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Thanks! Will send you one. Catching up on it. 🤙

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Friend asked me today the most common overlooked thing in design of a place where servers and network hardware will be kept.

Grounding and bonding. People remember the expensive stuff but overlook the main thing to protect that investment.

Living near the Rose Bowl

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coax connector cheat sheet #hamradio

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Jack in the Box drive through runs #Linux. 🤣

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Happy Holidays! 🎄🕎

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This Holiday Season show someone you REALLY care... 🤣

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Sloths alone are worth it.

👀🤣

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Louisiana is the true danger zone.

I'd make contact with those sour patch kids. 😉