declarative relay deployment on hetzner
relay-eval.waow.tech
atproto
relay
fix readme: present both relays as peers
the restructure made indigo and zlay first-class peers but the readme
still had indigo as the title and sole focus. rewrite the intro with a
comparison table showing both deployments side by side.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# relay.waow.tech
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# ATProto relay deployments
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> **experimental** — this is a personal project for learning ATProto infrastructure. the endpoints below may go down, lose data, or change without notice. do not depend on them for anything that matters.
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a full-network [ATProto](https://atproto.com) relay running on a single Hetzner Cloud node with k3s. a [jetstream](https://github.com/bluesky-social/jetstream) instance runs alongside it, re-encoding the relay's CBOR firehose into plain JSON over websockets. a [collectiondir](https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo/tree/main/cmd/collectiondir) sidecar indexes `(DID, collection)` pairs from the firehose and serves `com.atproto.sync.listReposByCollection` for TAP crawlers.
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two full-network [ATProto](https://atproto.com) relays on independent Hetzner Cloud nodes with k3s:
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**relay endpoint:** `wss://relay.waow.tech` — raw CBOR firehose ([`com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos`](https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/firehose))
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| | indigo (Go) | zlay (Zig) |
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| **firehose** | `wss://relay.waow.tech` | `wss://zlay.waow.tech` |
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| **health** | [`relay.waow.tech/xrpc/_health`](https://relay.waow.tech/xrpc/_health) | [`zlay.waow.tech/_health`](https://zlay.waow.tech/_health) |
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| **metrics** | [`relay-metrics.waow.tech`](https://relay-metrics.waow.tech) | [`zlay-metrics.waow.tech`](https://zlay-metrics.waow.tech) |
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| **source** | [bluesky-social/indigo](https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo) | [zzstoatzz.io/zlay](https://tangled.org/zzstoatzz.io/zlay) |
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**jetstream endpoint:** `wss://jetstream.waow.tech/subscribe` — same data, JSON over websockets
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**collection directory:** `https://relay.waow.tech/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.listReposByCollection` — paginated DID lists per collection (indie PDS hosts backfilled, bsky shard backfill pending)
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**health check:** [`https://relay.waow.tech/xrpc/_health`](https://relay.waow.tech/xrpc/_health)
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**metrics dashboard:** [`https://relay-metrics.waow.tech`](https://relay-metrics.waow.tech) (public, anonymous read-only)
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the indigo instance also runs a [jetstream](https://github.com/bluesky-social/jetstream) sidecar (`wss://jetstream.waow.tech/subscribe`) and a [collectiondir](https://github.com/bluesky-social/indigo/tree/main/cmd/collectiondir) for `com.atproto.sync.listReposByCollection`.
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## try it
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./scripts/firehose --duration 0 # forever (ctrl-c to stop)
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# point at a different relay
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./scripts/firehose --relay-url wss://zlay.waow.tech
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./scripts/firehose --relay-url wss://bsky.network
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