Link: http://charlieshrem.com/node
Running a Bitcoin node gives you a the warm, fuzzy feeling that comes from helping people download the blockchain faster. Same as seeding torrents provides warm fuzzies. You are supporting the overall Bitcoin network, relaying transactions and allowing people close to your server location to download the blockchain faster. This is a good way to learn some basic linux because the install is fairly straightforward and I address most of the problems you could encounter.
At the end of the guide, you will have something like this: http://199.58.210.124/
Running a Bitcoin node gives you a the warm, fuzzy feeling that comes from helping people download the blockchain faster. Same as seeding torrents provides warm fuzzies. You are supporting the overall Bitcoin network, relaying transactions and allowing people close to your server location to download the blockchain faster. This is a good way to learn some basic linux because the install is fairly straightforward and I address most of the problems you could encounter.
At the end of the guide, you will have something like this: http://199.58.210.124/
A very good guide indeed. A step by step process for a node setup on VPS would have been better
By the way, how was the movie Charlie ?
This is a guide to do that! lol, it was awesome!
Just some other pointers, most web hosting VPS will ban bittorrent traffic, so people maybe want to force encryption,
Also people doing this should add,
Also SSH should only use public key authorization this makes it near impossible for someone to hack thru ssh brute-force.
Code:
cat ~/.config/transmission/settings.json | grep encryption
should return: "encryption": 2, otherwise edit that part of the json file.Also people doing this should add,
Code:
disablewallet=1
To their bitcoin.conf file this will help make most of that ram. Do this before you start the bitcoind otherwise you have restart it before it takes.Also SSH should only use public key authorization this makes it near impossible for someone to hack thru ssh brute-force.
Both excellent points! I haven't done the wallet disable myself, I will now.