OceanSlim on Nostr: There kind of is a business model for relays. Paid relays all over the place. But ...

There kind of is a business model for relays. Paid relays all over the place. But running your own relay is not resource intensive if it's only a handful of users or just your own. Nostr scales the same way BTC does. Running a relay is cheap, unless you want a large public relay with high availability. But even my relay, wheat, has about 40-50 whitelisted users but is public and anyone can write and read to it. (Non whitelisted users have their events deleted every 2 days) I self host it, and can run on a raspberry pi if I wanted to. But it's running on the same machine as my node, my website, and a handful of other apps. Unless my notifications are blowing up, it runs fine on half a gig of ram and takes about 100mb of storage.