Nostr Server

https://usenostr.org/relay but as usual its a pile of crap. It says its “easy” but then you need to know a load of stuff beforehand, and of course, even rocket science is easy if you’ve already built a load of rockets. the config file it says to copy is on a server that doesn’t exist and search for a config shows that there are many different ones for many different purposes, the names of which mean nothing and have no explanations. I am so glad this is not “hard”.

I found what may be usable as the missing file. (it came with no explanations)

For Base setup

version: "3.7"

services:
  public-relay:
    image: scsibug/nostr-rs-relay
    restart: on-failure
    volumes:
      - ${PWD}/data/relay/config.toml:/home/.nostr-rs-relay/config.toml
      - ${PWD}/data/relay/db:/home/.nostr-rs-relay/db
    container_name: public-relay
    networks:
      - caddy

  web:
    image: getumbrel/umbrel-nostr-relay
    build: .
    user: "1000:1000"
    container_name: public-relay-web
    restart: on-failure
    environment:
      RELAY_HOST: "public-relay"
      RELAY_PORT: "8080"
    # port 3000 web
    networks:
      - caddy

networks:
  caddy:
    name: caddy

For Caddy (Proxy Setup)

version: "3.7"
name: "caddy-stack"

services:
  caddy:
    image: caddy:2-alpine
    container_name: caddy
    ports:
      - 80:80
      - 443:443
    networks:
      - caddy
      - default
    volumes:
      - ./caddy/Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
      - ./caddy_data/data:/data
      - ./caddy_data/config:/config
    restart: unless-stopped

networks:
  caddy:
    name: caddy

Caddyfile Contents

{
	email your@mail.com #Mail used to generate the HTTPS certificate.
}

# Replace your.relay.domain by the domain name of your choice!
your.relay.domain {
    reverse_proxy public-relay:8080
}

dash.your.relay.domain {
    reverse_proxy public-relay-web:3000
}

Still to do: edit the config file with the address of the relay etc (first 3 lines mostly) plus the contact address etc. Set up the router, set up the subdomain and point to the orange pi.

output from docker compose up command: 
andy@orangepi5:~/nostr-relay$ sudo docker compose up -d
[sudo] password for andy:
WARN[0000] /home/andy/nostr-relay/docker-compose.yml: the attribute version is obsolete, it will be ignored, please remove it to avoid potential confusion
[+] Running 15/15
✔ web Pulled 33.3s
✔ 9b18e9b68314 Pull complete 2.7s
✔ 480d8737fa00 Pull complete 2.9s
✔ ee8b251ca0b5 Pull complete 2.9s
✔ 9543d07ca789 Pull complete 4.1s
✔ 88e0320d2afc Pull complete 4.1s
✔ 0f234a4da84e Pull complete 4.1s
✔ 08121a609662 Pull complete 4.1s
✔ cc60ed5c4f1d Pull complete 30.3s
✔ public-relay Pulled 11.6s
✔ 1f7ce2fa46ab Pull complete 6.1s
✔ d50133f7f81a Pull complete 6.7s
✔ d24479914e96 Pull complete 6.7s
✔ 4b5189a2138d Pull complete 7.9s
✔ d496c7060238 Pull complete 9.1s
[+] Running 2/4
✔ Network caddy Created0.2s 1.3s
⠼ Container public-relay-web [+] Running 2/4 Starting1.4s
✔ Network caddy Created0.2s
⠴ Container public-relay-web [+] Running 2/4 Starting1.5s
✔ Network caddy Created0.2s
⠦ Container public-relay-web [+] Running 4/4 Starting1.6s
✔ Network caddy Created0.2s
✔ Container public-relay-web Started1.7s
✔ Container public-relay Started1.7s
! public-relay The requested image's platform (linux/amd64) does not match the detected host platform (linux/arm64/v8) and no specific platform was requested 0.0s
andy@orangepi5:~/nostr-relay$

Try https://github.com/nodetec/relaywizard?tab=readme-ov-file#readme maybe that will work.

It seems like groups are possible too. https://nips.nostr.com/29 and more about that (I think) here: https://chachi.chat/ but it’s all pretty scatty and confusing.

or https://hivetalk.org/active

CDNs

https://www.fastly.com/pricing has $50 per month of free CDN traffic.

https://cloudinary.com/pricing is not straightforward, it depends what counts as “transformations”.

https://uploadcare.com/pricing has a free tier.

https://www.jsdelivr.com is a “free CDN for open source projects”.

https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing/?loc=ft#AWS_Free_Usage_Tier but its a real crappy proprietary system that takes many years to learn. And then it changes.

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