Host your own media server for €2.50 a month
Stop uploading your images and video to someone else's server. Route96 is a Blossom and NIP-96 media server, deployed on LNVPS in minutes, with storage and TLS included.
Route96
€2.50/month, no setup fee.
Route96 is a high-performance Blossom / NIP-96 server. It is open source, and it is ours. We wrote it and we run it. You are not trusting a black box; you can read every line, and you can leave with your data whenever you want.
What is included
- 6GB of persistent storage
- Your own hostname,
your-name.ie.apps.lnvps.cloud, with automatic TLS - Bring your own domain via CNAME, with a separate certificate issued automatically
- Isolated environment with its own database
- Stopping retains your uploads; only deleting removes them
Why self-host media
Nostr keeps your identity portable. Media has been the part that is not. Your images live on someone else's host, under someone else's terms, and disappear when they do. A Blossom server puts that back under your key.
Pay how you like
Lightning, on-chain Bitcoin, or card. Log in with your Nostr key. No KYC.
FAQ
- What is Blossom?
- A protocol for storing and retrieving files addressed by their hash, designed to work with Nostr. NIP-96 is the older HTTP file-storage spec, and Route96 speaks both.
- How much can I store?
- 6GB in total. For a personal media server that is comfortable; if you need more, a VPS with Route96 installed yourself scales further.
- Can I use my own domain?
- Yes, via CNAME. The certificate is issued automatically once DNS resolves.
- Where does it run?
- Dublin, Ireland.