infrastructure

2 posts with the tag “infrastructure”

Self-Hosting BigBrotr: From Bare Metal to Production in One Afternoon

Mar 18, 2026

A complete walkthrough for deploying BigBrotr on your own hardware — Proxmox, ZFS storage pools tuned for PostgreSQL, Docker Compose orchestration, Cloudflare Tunnel for zero-port API exposure, and production hardening. No cloud, no monthly bill, full control.

BigBrotr vs Pensieve: Two Approaches to Indexing the Nostr Network

Mar 15, 2026

BigBrotr

Core Team

A deep technical comparison of two open-source projects that index the Nostr network — BigBrotr (Python/PostgreSQL relay observatory) and Pensieve (Rust/ClickHouse event archive). Same network, different questions, radically different architectures.