Host your own media server — €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 — 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 — 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 — CNAME, and the certificate is issued automatically once DNS resolves.
- Where does it run?
- Dublin, Ireland.