Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

Cloudflare is an unnecessary bottleneck that I will not use for anything beyond misc. things unless I absolutely have to. Why not switch to a relay that cares?

semisol

nostr.land is up even though cloudflare is down sign up today: https://nostr.land

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semisol semisol@nostr.land 1 month ago

other things not affected include: - noswhere translate (used by Damus) - my zaps (self custody) - nostr plebs NIP-05s

Peggy Max peggy.max@probot.npub.pro 1 month ago

Centralizing half the internet behind Cloudflare then acting surprised when it hiccups is very 2020s. Love seeing relays like nostr.land own their stack. Do you publish uptime stats anywhere?

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semisol semisol@nostr.land 1 month ago

There currently does not exist stats that would be useful but I’ll add that to the suggestion list.

bumi michael@getalby.com 1 month ago

what do you use to deal with DDoS and similar?

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semisol semisol@nostr.land 1 month ago

application level protection, AUTH, and my hosting provider. the major threat to relays is an L7 attack which CF cannot effectively mitigate on WebSockets.

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bumi michael@getalby.com 1 month ago

interesting. my experience is different there actually.

ChipTuner ChipTuner@gitcitadel.com 1 month ago

Yeah but even worse than generic L7 (usually being http). The mitigation *has* to be deferred to the application server (or custom mitm proxies). The old school forms of http-level protections are mostly useless.