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Topic: Recommendation for a host for a full node? (Read 611 times)
a couple years ago someone ran virtual servers offering remote node services like this topic asks.. th result is that stupid people all bought services to run a node remotely thinking it was helping, when the reality was that it simply clustered many nodes (centralising) to one location.
if you understand the whole point of why there is a requirement to have more decentralised nodes, you would not be asking which centralised services are available to add nodes to..
analogy.
you dislike central banks for holding your money remotely, out of your hands.. but instead of wanting to put a safe in your own home you go out and search for money handling services.
if you understand the whole point of why there is a requirement to have more decentralised nodes, you would not be asking which centralised services are available to add nodes to..
analogy.
you dislike central banks for holding your money remotely, out of your hands.. but instead of wanting to put a safe in your own home you go out and search for money handling services.
You make a valid point - if any specific DC goes down so do the nodes hosted on those VPS's. The best way to go about it would be hosting your own node on your own computer (not sure if a Rasp Pi could do it) or potentially buying a VPS from a collocated provider with their own DC - that way at least you'd have more redundancy.
@OP: Take a look at lowendtalk.com they should have some VPS providers which accept Bitcoin with their own DC's.
a couple years ago someone ran virtual servers offering remote node services like this topic asks.. th result is that stupid people all bought services to run a node remotely thinking it was helping, when the reality was that it simply clustered many nodes (centralising) to one location.
if you understand the whole point of why there is a requirement to have more decentralised nodes, you would not be asking which centralised services are available to add nodes to..
analogy.
you dislike central banks for holding your money remotely, out of your hands.. but instead of wanting to put a safe in your own home you go out and search for money handling services.
if you understand the whole point of why there is a requirement to have more decentralised nodes, you would not be asking which centralised services are available to add nodes to..
analogy.
you dislike central banks for holding your money remotely, out of your hands.. but instead of wanting to put a safe in your own home you go out and search for money handling services.
DigitalOcean is one of the best VPS provider out there. If you are looking for bitcoin accepting VPS, Namecheap might be a good choice. If you dont want to spend too much Bitcoin on a VPS, time4vps sound good too.
time4vps is the cheapest along with loadedhost and bluevm, they also accept bitcoin, so you get the perfect situation
but bluevm last time i checked use a shitty cpu...
but bluevm last time i checked use a shitty cpu...
Go to the Digital Goods section and buy an MSDN admin account. Activate your 3 year free $150/month Azure credits. That should be enough to pay for a couple of 1-core virtual servers to host 2 full nodes. (Make sure Vod does not catch you doing it, though.)
Check out Amazon Web Services: amazonaws.com
Their free tier lets you have a server for one year with only a few extra cents for the added cost of having a 40 Gb hard drive for the blockchain instead of the maximum 30 Gb for the free tier.
Their free tier lets you have a server for one year with only a few extra cents for the added cost of having a 40 Gb hard drive for the blockchain instead of the maximum 30 Gb for the free tier.
looking for a cheap and reliable host so that I can start up another bitcoin node.
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