ChipTuner

Building a digital life/workflow around local-first/offline has it's difficulties, but it's nice that when a big-tech site goes down, my work, my services, and tools were uninterrupted. The way it used to be before it became normal to hand over our tools to big tech. This is especially satisfying if the ISP goes down or with battery backups (or generators) when the power goes out. I was completely oblivious to GitHub being down today but I was getting messages about it. Don't let them take your ability to use YOUR devices on your terms. #selfhost.

Since the devine chats, I've been thinking about this. I'm thinking media hosting an relays as a service should be compelling to larger nostr applications. Since nostr brings security, redundancy, and load balancing to the client, you could purchase relay services from many providers on around the world with varying levels of availability, decentralization, and performance. Ideally if provider 1 goes down, provider 2 is still up, 3 and so on. These are active-active providers ideally so you're hardly over provisioning ideally. I know the hosting costs are fixed, so the only added cost would be over-provisioning, but they would get weighed in with the "as a service" cost analysis. I'm sure if asked, many providers would be willing to handle contractual obligations such as guarantees, ownership and so on.