I had one (of my three) go down about three days ago. Morblias talked me through how to restart it [for my first time]. Now all is well, again.
How can we restart it? Do you do it with
sudo reboot
command?
Topic: PSA: Add a Full Node for just $19/year! - page 8. (Read 17776 times)
How can we restart it? Do you do it with
sudo reboot
command?
I used weloveservers' vps node and put a bitcoind on it. The vps has went down a couple of times, weloveservers support mentioned that it is getting ddos'ed. Did anyone experience similar issue?
I run it for one week now without any problem.
I used weloveservers' vps node and put a bitcoind on it. The vps has went down a couple of times, weloveservers support mentioned that it is getting ddos'ed. Did anyone experience similar issue?
I doubt people would ddos a bitcoin node, seeing there are tons of them, and there's little to gain from ddosing a single node. what probably happened was that your VPS provider was overselling its servers, and are using ddos as an excuse.i sometimes get >100 connections at a time on one of these servers. could that many simultaneous connections look like a ddos itself to an admin?
I highly doubt 100 connections would count as a DDOS. Isn't a VPS main function to host a service that people actually can use.
I used weloveservers' vps node and put a bitcoind on it. The vps has went down a couple of times, weloveservers support mentioned that it is getting ddos'ed. Did anyone experience similar issue?
I doubt people would ddos a bitcoin node, seeing there are tons of them, and there's little to gain from ddosing a single node. what probably happened was that your VPS provider was overselling its servers, and are using ddos as an excuse.i sometimes get >100 connections at a time on one of these servers. could that many simultaneous connections look like a ddos itself to an admin?
I used weloveservers' vps node and put a bitcoind on it. The vps has went down a couple of times, weloveservers support mentioned that it is getting ddos'ed. Did anyone experience similar issue?
I doubt people would ddos a bitcoin node, seeing there are tons of them, and there's little to gain from ddosing a single node. what probably happened was that your VPS provider was overselling its servers, and are using ddos as an excuse. 
Hey Morblias, can you make instruction like these: http://pastebin.com/qbmSNhWK, but for setup an electrum node?
I had one (of my three) go down about three days ago. Morblias talked me through how to restart it [for my first time]. Now all is well, again.
I used weloveservers' vps node and put a bitcoind on it. The vps has went down a couple of times, weloveservers support mentioned that it is getting ddos'ed. Did anyone experience similar issue?
Do the blue2's with 512MB ram and 25GB HD space have enough resources to run a node? Those are available but the blue3 are sold out
No
Do the blue2's with 512MB ram and 25GB HD space have enough resources to run a node? Those are available but the blue3 are sold out
But ppl that get nothing out of it should really think twice before spending their hard earned money
Most people run a full node because they gain security from having the ability to independently verify txs and blocks. There is nobody who gets "nothing" from running a full node other than someone who doesn't own any Bitcoins. Satoshi had already considered that in time most users would not run a full node. This is covered in the white paper written a year before the genesis block. The security model doesn't need everyone to run a full node. If someday 100,00 merchants accepted Bitcoins they would have a vested interest to run full nodes to ensure the network remains decentralized. Even if only 10% of them do that is more full nodes then currently exist today.
I run a few on Azure VMs. Just my 0.02BTC contribution. Thought about building rasberry pie, solar powered nodes.
DeathAndTaxes - yes you have profit out of it, you shoud run em
Xelpherpolis - same...run, please do
But ppl that get nothing out of it should really think twice before spending their hard earned money....shake their head before they start talking etc. And if it's not "hard earned money, please send some to my adress.
BTC devs made it this way when they introduces ASIC's (well to be more precie, when they didint change protocol so ASIC's become heap of useless electonic chips) and that's the way it will stay. We all should acknowlage it that way and start acting like that. It's not uncentralized as it was suppose to be and that's the reality.
Xelpherpolis - same...run, please do
But ppl that get nothing out of it should really think twice before spending their hard earned money....shake their head before they start talking etc. And if it's not "hard earned money, please send some to my adress.
BTC devs made it this way when they introduces ASIC's (well to be more precie, when they didint change protocol so ASIC's become heap of useless electonic chips) and that's the way it will stay. We all should acknowlage it that way and start acting like that. It's not uncentralized as it was suppose to be and that's the reality.
FYI: 1GB ram with swap and 40gb hard drive $16.99/year. They are sold out right now, but keep an eye on them to try to grab one if you are looking for cheap VPS: https://bluevm.com/cart.php?gid=42 (i haven't used this host yet, so I can't comment on how good/bad they are).
The $30/year one is a pretty good deal from them too with 2GB ram 60GB HD.
The $30/year one is a pretty good deal from them too with 2GB ram 60GB HD.
wow, that looks good.
let us know when they open up!
FYI: 1GB ram with swap and 40gb hard drive $16.99/year. They are sold out right now, but keep an eye on them to try to grab one if you are looking for cheap VPS: https://bluevm.com/cart.php?gid=42 (i haven't used this host yet, so I can't comment on how good/bad they are).
The $30/year one is a pretty good deal from them too with 2GB ram 60GB HD.
The $30/year one is a pretty good deal from them too with 2GB ram 60GB HD.
I have a complete mining farm at my personal datacenter, we also run public nodes on the bitcoin network to try and help speed up blockchain downloading for new or returning users.
Since introduction of ASIC's, bitcoin does not deserve private full nodes aside from those that miners use. Those who make money out of it, should pay for it too. If Bitcoin community and developers wanted spread out, uncentralized, node distribution, they woul never let ASIC's inside Bitcoin. One single little change in code would diaable all known ASICS. After that change no one else would ever try to create another one as they would know that their investment would fail as protocol would change again (noone would invest milions into creating chips that would be rendered useless as soon as they hit the network).
That is silly. I run a full node (actually a number of them) because I personally benefit from having a trustless connection to the network. Running multiple nodes allows our company to ensure we aren't isolated. That isn't going to change in the future.
Its a fantastic idea and all, but paying for a server to have somebody else remote into it, add a status script and setup bitcoind with there donation address pasted on the website for something you pay for, seems... not right. It should be crediting the person who is paying for that VPS to run the node. Not directing to his wallet.
Not a problem. Morblias will gladly do it however you wish. Actually, when he and I first corresponded about him helping me with this, he asked for my donation address to put on the page. I responded that he should put his instead, since he was doing all the work and would be the one setting up additional nodes with any donation money folks might send. He obliged and set it up the way you see it.I was and am fine with someone else getting the credit for the node. All I'm doing is paying for it, thankful someone else could set it up for me. I want no credit for this. After all, it's my contribution to the network. Let's just call in anonymous, yes?
Now that sounds much better, I like that.
Its a fantastic idea and all, but paying for a server to have somebody else remote into it, add a status script and setup bitcoind with there donation address pasted on the website for something you pay for, seems... not right. It should be crediting the person who is paying for that VPS to run the node. Not directing to his wallet.
Not a problem. Morblias will gladly do it however you wish. Actually, when he and I first corresponded about him helping me with this, he asked for my donation address to put on the page. I responded that he should put his instead, since he was doing all the work and would be the one setting up additional nodes with any donation money folks might send. He obliged and set it up the way you see it.I was and am fine with someone else getting the credit for the node. All I'm doing is paying for it, thankful someone else could set it up for me. I want no credit for this. After all, it's my contribution to the network. Let's just call in anonymous, yes?
Its a fantastic idea and all, but paying for a server to have somebody else remote into it, add a status script and setup bitcoind with there donation address pasted on the website for something you pay for, seems... not right.
It should be crediting the person who is paying for that VPS to run the node. Not directing to his wallet.
It should be crediting the person who is paying for that VPS to run the node. Not directing to his wallet.
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