We're back online! RCA: Incognet's dedicated server panel license expired *while* we were installing a new OS on the relay after multiple years of running Debian. So I was unable to restore the server when I accidentally installed an EFI bootloader instead a BIOS bootloader. Woof. On top of that, I thought it was such an unlikely coincidence that I opened a case about it with only "Medium" priority, thinking if the NOC got to it within a day or two it'd be fine. After five days of no response (the promised support response time for Incognet is 1-5 days) I escalated to high priority and the issue got promptly resolved. So I take full responsibility for the downtime. Sorry folks! I used to work in a data center NOC support, so I remember all too well how whiny support tickets can seem. That's why I try to avoid that tone and try to be generous with my patience when I (very rarely) actually need to bother NOC for technical support. In most cases I can self-service my way out of problems - this time was one of those rare exceptions. More to come later about what's next for bitcoiner.social. Onward and upward. 🫡 View quoted note →

Yeah, I think reinstalling the OS on our blade server over a holiday weekend may not have been my best idea. The relay will be down until I get schedule on-site hands. The ticket is already a few hours old and I haven't heard back from the data center yet. 💀 Sorry for the down-time folks! In any case, I've got an offsite backup I made immediately prior to the reinstall attempt. But hey, if things work out, I feel like I'll have a lot more time to dust off and fiddle with my nostr projects in 2026. Woo!

in a couple weeks there'll be some free time and we're planning to rewrite the ansible playbooks for the relay as a nix config. I'll take a look at our WoT based filtering tiers and see if I can add any improvements. also going to see if I can set up an inbox relay endpoint. What features do you want from your relay? the main thing I think we could improve is communicating the features that are already implemented. we published them before as long-form notes, but no one probably reads those. we should be publishing features on actual web pages. then no one can read those too! x_X

Just initiated the DNS changes to migrate to our new server. We're keeping an eye on traffic starting to switch over now. Looking good so far.

New server is staged so we'll tentatively schedule our relay migration tomorrow, assuming we don't drink too much tonight. Good evening!

Waking up to see we have access to our new bare metal blade server for the relay. CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2690v2 ( 10 cores / 20 threads @ 3.00 GHz ) RAM: 64GB DDR3 ECC I usually run Debian on servers, but maybe today's the day to put NixOS on a server. Hmm. Good morning

A data center outage is in progress, the relay may be unavailable for a bit. We'll be back asap.

Running @Habla News https://news.bitcoiner.social/

We have opened the gates again. Public relay write access is available, with some restrictions intended to inhibit spam. All existing premium users of bitcoiner.social retain unrestricted write access. Current policies are experimental and subject to change. Big thanks to @offchain.pub for testing some of them out in advance! If you operate a broadcasting service, just provide us a stable source address to exclude from our rate limits.

For those asking, our relay is temporarily private while we work on a new sustainability model. Aiming for a mixure of free or very inexpensive relay of notes (and other stuff). Most of the work up to now has been about making the existing relay faster and more stable. No point in charging for services if they suck, afterall! Our dev guy is working through a backlog trying to get to this.

The mempool is a layer cake: That's the one-week chart. Monthly looks pretty similar. You know what this means!

We just started running snort on bitcoiner.social Now you can link directly to nostr events on this relay via our snort instance, such as your profile page: https://snort.bitcoiner.social/p/npub1an3nz7lczcunpdw6ltjst94hgzcxpppnk7zk3zr2nfcj4yd96kdse6twjd Big thanks to @npub1sn0r...jtws