An what does this SpreadCoin VPS Node accomplish ?
Anything a normal node can't do ?
Well, it is on 24/7 and it has a lot of bandwidth. I guess they are the main benefits.
Theres also the fact that you don't need to leave your own computer on all the time, which could be a fire hazard.
Lol ok then but it seems pretty pointless though.
You do know computers are designed to be always on right.... In the past 25 year of dealing with PC's I haven't had one ever catch fire or overheat unless it was a dust problem
It won't be pointless when we have servicenodes, which will require significant CPU power. (from what I've heard)
Significant CPU usage you mean, well that's not good at all, things are meant to be energy efficient, its like your basically saying "Yes we have servicenodes but you can't run them on a PC properly & will get kicked due to using too much resources and not performing well with score, you won't be able to do anything else on it so you run them on your rented VPS to secure your servicenode and score"
When I say significant power, iIm talking about when (hopefully) Spreadcoin gets popular. Because then we will have one
masternode servicenode managing many peers and performing services and that is why they will have high CPU usage.
Right now they will use low amounts of CPU power.
Will you get stakes or a reward for being a servicenode ?
BTW that's some pretty slow internet upload lol I'm in Australia as well and my Telstra ISP plan is 500GB with Free speed-boost & a bonus 500GB for being a long term member totaling 1TB Download/Upload limit.
My max speed connection is 110+ Mbps Download & 2Mbps Upload.
All on Cable, no silly NBN or ADSL lol
silly nbn? ... hehehe ... i like that ...
unlimited download - unlimited upload - 100Mbps down - 30Mps up ... $90.00 AUD a month ...
yup - silly allright
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#crysx
$90??? Mine is $120 for 200GB and $140 for 500GB.
Why does my internet really suck? Satallite is probably faster.
yup - thats the home link ... exetel from sydney but australiawide ... i have used exetel a while ago ( when bbs's were the rage and we had one that had 24 telstra dialup lines with exetel as the isp ) and started using them again via nbn for home ... IF you can get nbn ...
the office link cant get nbn ...
it has a cable connection ( similar to the one spoken about earlier - but that is telstra $130/month which gives us all the crap we dont need - like telephone number and foxtcra... i mean foxtel ) and two adsl connections - one from a different isp ( exetel and dodo ) each at $80/month ...
the two adsl are shared via a dual broadband router for office internet ( the router is a linksys rv082 but is now called a cisco rv082 - cisco bought out linksys ages ago ) - and the cable is a failover / dedicated miner link ...
the rebuild of the farm and each of the miners ( in the various locations ) will be routed ( tunneled ) through the cable link - that is until nbn becomes available in the area where the office is ... then we will drop cable altogether ...
i think if you want to have a reliable system - weigh up whether cable / nbn is available in your area - and if so - how much it will cost to break contract and reconnect with a better provider ...
thats what we have done - and havent looked back ... the only issues we get are the adsl links ... water / rain / boofheads cutting copper wires ... the usual crap that comes with telstra based services - as you have experienced ...
other than that - cable and nbn seem to be the fastest and the most reliable ... but not necessarily the cheapest ...
then again - movies / streaming is not a big thing with us so we concatenate the links mainly for data and mining and the accessibility to the farm and servers ...
#crysx