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quoting nevent1q…qc3y

Running your own micro relay for less than the cost of 2 cups of coffee a month.

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Choose a reliable and well-known VPS or cloud provider. Depending on your level of OpSec, you can go further to choose ones in privacy-friendly countries. Get something with at least 1 CPU and 2GB RAM. Much more is far from micro.

Choose Linux to run on the VPS/instance. Or host from home.

Use a subdomain of a domain you already own or a dynamic free DNS name:
https://freedns.afraid.org/

Install strfry:
https://github.com/hoytech/strfry/blob/0.9.2/docs/DEPLOYMENT.md

Install strfry-policies:
https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/strfry-policies/-/blob/develop/README.md

Pay close attention to the whitelistPolicy, since most others apply to more public-facing relays.

Or use the example policy in strfry:
https://github.com/hoytech/strfry/blob/master/docs/plugins.md

Start relay.
Test relay.
Enjoy relay.
Update relay. 🤙💜🫂