ben on Nostr: I’ve been building an experimental nostr relay with the goal of improving bandwidth ...
I’ve been building an experimental nostr relay with the goal of improving bandwidth efficiency and performance of nostr clients.
the idea is simple: instead of connecting the phone to a dozen relays and deduplicating events locally, push that logic into a “proxy relay” in the cloud.
- duplicate events are never sent to the client, improving both bandwidth usage and performance
- the proxy maintains a local database of events to further speed up queries
- your client IP address is only visible to your proxy, not the upstream relays
- you can define separate upstream read and write relays
- nip-42 + allowlist auth to optionally restrict access
if you look at my set of relays you’ll see I’m only connected to one - that’s my private relay proxy. I’ve been using this setup with damus for the better part of a week and so far so good.
the code is free and open source at https://github.com/bndw/nostr-relay-proxy
the idea is simple: instead of connecting the phone to a dozen relays and deduplicating events locally, push that logic into a “proxy relay” in the cloud.
- duplicate events are never sent to the client, improving both bandwidth usage and performance
- the proxy maintains a local database of events to further speed up queries
- your client IP address is only visible to your proxy, not the upstream relays
- you can define separate upstream read and write relays
- nip-42 + allowlist auth to optionally restrict access
if you look at my set of relays you’ll see I’m only connected to one - that’s my private relay proxy. I’ve been using this setup with damus for the better part of a week and so far so good.
the code is free and open source at https://github.com/bndw/nostr-relay-proxy