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Jim

Waking up to see we have access to our new bare metal blade server for the relay. CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2690v2 ( 10 cores / 20 threads @ 3.00 GHz ) RAM: 64GB DDR3 ECC
I usually run Debian on servers, but maybe today's the day to put NixOS on a server. Hmm.
Good morning

2024-06-02 19:43:00

You're right, we can do better.
We've been keeping our smole relay fast and healthy is by periodically pruning events. Paid users like yourself still get longer duration. Occasionally when we see the usage spike, we dial up the pruning. Rinse repeat over the last year and now events expire within weeks rather than months like when we initially started. It's time for us to grow with nostr a bit, so we just paid to lease an affordable dedicated server in Kansas. This will increase the duration that we can keep posts, like more than 10x (last time we had a dedicated server we didn't prune at all). We backup our event store regularly, so when we migrate a lot of old events will get restored on this particular relay.
Our costs increase as well, so we're working on improving our web of trust model and eventually setting up subscriptions.
#nevent1q…4etp

2024-01-30 20:16:17

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And we're back.

2024-01-30 08:25:20

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Server is rebuilding the raid array currently, and should be back online afterwards. Couple hours maybe.

2024-01-30 02:28:52

A data center outage is in progress, the relay may be unavailable for a bit. We'll be back asap.

2024-01-21 05:58:19

Just completed some relay server maintenace today that changes our pruning strategy to keep events from friends-of-friends for a longer period.

2024-01-20 22:38:04

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Fantastic! We have one too, no auth required currently.
ws://bitcoinr6de5lkvx4tpwdmzrdfdpla5sya2afwpcabjup2xpi5dulbad.onion

2024-01-05 23:29:26

@79f00d3f5a19ec806189fcab03c1be4ff81d18ee4f653c88fac41fe03570f432 137155 events, 268.3 MB bytes
that's a lotta zaps in our database 👏

2023-12-31 19:41:49

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It's a temporary spam prevention policy.

2023-12-31 18:27:25

Happy New Year
We're just getting started here

2023-10-22 06:41:11

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Because we'll never restrict the high utility event kinds (like nwc) and have long term pleb-sized plans for this relay.

2023-10-22 06:36:44

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wss://bitcoiner.social if you want. We love you regardless.

2023-10-20 19:47:21

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This list is a little dated

2023-10-13 22:40:31

Running @npub1048…x3nf
https://news.bitcoiner.social/

2023-10-11 19:44:18

We have opened the gates again. Public relay write access is available, with some restrictions intended to inhibit spam. All existing premium users of bitcoiner.social retain unrestricted write access.
Current policies are experimental and subject to change. Big thanks to @npub1dvd…0wh3 for testing some of them out in advance!
If you operate a broadcasting service, just provide us a stable source address to exclude from our rate limits.

2023-09-25 22:30:23

For those asking, our relay is temporarily private while we work on a new sustainability model. Aiming for a mixure of free or very inexpensive relay of notes (and other stuff). Most of the work up to now has been about making the existing relay faster and more stable. No point in charging for services if they suck, afterall! Our dev guy is working through a backlog trying to get to this.

2023-08-15 23:21:27

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sup

2023-08-15 22:03:40

The mempool is a layer cake:
https://bitcoiner.social/static/attachments/Wi5noA_mempool-cake.png
That's the one-week chart. Monthly looks pretty similar. You know what this means!

2023-08-15 01:52:00

We just started running snort on bitcoiner.social
Now you can link directly to nostr events on this relay via our snort instance, such as your profile page:
https://snort.bitcoiner.social/p/npub1an3nz7lczcunpdw6ltjst94hgzcxpppnk7zk3zr2nfcj4yd96kdse6twjd
Big thanks to @npub1sn0…jtws
https://void.cat/d/89e8Dhgii9xnEBQfZnp7be.webp