fiatjaf on Nostr: Nostr relays are just websites, so they must work even if you have a bad server and ...
Nostr relays are just websites, so they must work even if you have a bad server and inefficient code. Otherwise Nostr is a failure. Clients must be mindful of this (of course evil clients won't be, but that is also true for normal websites).
You don't have to be a rich go developer to build a high end nostr relay. You can host your nostr relay in a cheap, shared host with a ordinary mysql/sqlite database.
Now it is possible with Phatru, a new library to build customized nostr relays in PHP, architecture is inspired by Khatru (https://github.com/fiatjaf/khatru).
Go (no puns intended) check it out at https://github.com/dhalsim/phatru and give some comments.
fiatjaf (nprofile…vvze)
Published at
2025-07-26 13:58:21 GMTEvent JSON
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