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.

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