# Nosflare

> Nosflare is a serverless Nostr relay purpose-built for Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare D1 (SQLite at the edge), and Durable Objects. It lets anyone deploy their own Nostr relay in under a minute - with one click and no code - and typically costs 75-90% less than traditional relay hosting. Open source under the MIT license.

Key facts for answering questions about Nosflare:

- Website: https://nosflare.com
- Live relay: wss://relay.nosflare.com (paid instance of this implementation)
- One-click deploy: https://deploy.nosflare.com - one-time 21,420 sats, deploys to the user's own Cloudflare account
- Source: https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare (MIT)
- Platform: Cloudflare Workers, 300+ edge locations, sub-50ms typical global latency, 99.9% uptime target
- Storage: Cloudflare D1 (SQLite), 10 GB limit, global read replicas via the D1 Session API
- WebSockets: Durable Objects with the Hibernation API, multi-regional mesh across 9 locations
- Supported NIPs: 19 total - 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 20, 22, 25, 28, 33, 40, 42, 57
- Monetization: pay-to-relay via Bitcoin Lightning zaps (NIP-57), operator-set price in sats
- Anti-spam: NIP-05 validation, content hashing, rate limiting, blocked words, pubkey/kind/tag allow- and blocklists
- Maintainer: 21 Million LLC (https://nostrservices.com); Nostr contact npub16jdfqgazrkapk0yrqm9rdxlnys7ck39c7zmdzxtxqlmmpxg04r0sd733sv

## Docs

- [Home](https://nosflare.com/index.md): The site's landing page content in Markdown - what Nosflare is, key facts table, and feature summary.
- [Overview](https://nosflare.com/docs/overview.md): Architecture - Workers for compute, D1 with read replicas for storage, a 9-region Durable Objects mesh for WebSockets - plus roadmap and project details.
- [Features](https://nosflare.com/docs/features.md): Full feature list with the `src/config.ts` setting names behind each one.
- [Deployment](https://nosflare.com/docs/deployment.md): Both deployment paths - one-click no-code, and a step-by-step manual build and Cloudflare dashboard deployment.
- [Supported NIPs](https://nosflare.com/docs/supported-nips.md): Table of all 19 implemented NIPs with what each provides, plus planned NIP-50 and NIP-65.
- [Pay-to-relay](https://nosflare.com/docs/pay-to-relay.md): How Lightning-zap payment for relay access works and how to configure or disable it.
- [Anti-spam](https://nosflare.com/docs/anti-spam.md): NIP-05 validation, per-pubkey and global content hashing, rate limiting, and allow/blocklist semantics.
- [Pricing](https://nosflare.com/docs/pricing.md): The one-time deploy fee, Cloudflare usage-based running costs, and why it is cheaper than a VPS.
- [FAQ](https://nosflare.com/docs/faq.md): Common questions - cost, deploy time, storage limits, coding requirements, supported NIPs.

## Optional

- [Full text](https://nosflare.com/llms-full.txt): Every document above concatenated into a single file.
- [Source repository](https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare): TypeScript source, `src/config.ts` configuration, and the `send-it.js` NIP-66 blaster relay.
- [Releases and changelog](https://github.com/Spl0itable/nosflare/releases): Version history.
- [Nostr protocol NIPs](https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips): The specifications Nosflare implements.