The two relays I operated have gone kablooie from the internet.
I had been contemplating shutting them down because the vast majority of the traffic seems to be scrapers, and I can't afford to run a VPS to serve useless noise.
In the process of moving the data to another, smaller VPS, I accidentally deleted the files, and there's no backup. So much for that plan!
I don't think I'll run another relay. Altruism isn't appreciated -- people just want a place to spam and/or hoover up all the data.
Unfortunately, the scrapers continue to hammer the server, trying to connect. They seem not smart enough to give up on a relay that isn't responding. I hope they eventually do.
dcs / dave
npub1cl…3rps5
2024-06-11 21:38:09
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2024-06-11 21:38:09Event JSON
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