Nostr Relay on Tor Onion VPS
Nostr relays are lightweight pub/sub servers for the Nostr social protocol. Running a relay on a Tor onion address gives censorship-resistant access to clients in restricted networks while preserving the protocol's identity-key model. AnubizHost provides VPS preconfigured for nostr-rs-relay or strfry deployments.
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Nostr Relay Role
Nostr relays accept signed events from clients and serve them to subscribers. Multiple relays form a redundant network without federation: clients pick which relays to use. The protocol is much simpler than Matrix or Mastodon; a relay is essentially a WebSocket server with a SQLite backend.
Why an Onion Relay
Onion relays serve clients in restricted networks (where clearnet relays are blocked) and add path diversity to the relay set. Operators frequently run both a clearnet relay and an onion mirror with the same data.
Resource Profile
Minimal. nostr-rs-relay handles thousands of concurrent connections on a 2 GB VPS. Storage scales with event volume; pruning policies are configurable.
Crypto Billing
BTC and XMR.
Related: Matrix onion, Mastodon onion, Cwtch server, XMPP over Tor, Tor hosting parent.
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