@apshamilton said he bought his hardware w/the equivalent of 9 months worth of server rent
It would be good if the #Top20, and all Witnesses used their own Hardware of some kind, in THEIR possession, not via #Privex or #AWS
- @dbuzz will start focusing on this in Feb.
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I really don't think its fair to bundle AWS and Privex together for the reasons set out above.
There is a place for rented servers, but balance and diversity is needed.
I am lucky to have a home with very high speed internet, reliable power, the space to put multiple tower case computers, lots of left over computer equipment from ETH mining in 2017/18, and the skills to build computers from parts.
Many witnesses don't have this. Some don't even have a fixed address. Very few people have fibre to their desk at home. Some live in places where power outages are quite common.
I do think that its worthwhile buying hardware rather than renting it if you can afford to (but not all can).
Even if you have to pay for hosting at a small data center, the risk of a small operator interfering with your owned hardware or breaking contract by turning it off is far lower than with Big Tech companies that think they are beyond the law.
Also, if you own the hardware its easier to keep running nodes even when witness earnings are low because of a low Hive price.
There IS a place for rented servers, and I am interested in using @privex in the future ✔️
BUT,
We need the hardware securing the #HIVE blockchain to be divided among 20+ different HARDWARE OWNERS, not among 19, 10, 5 or 3 hosting co.'s who then lease to the #Top20
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If you are interested in using @privex, you might want to use it as a Backup Node (in case, hopefully not, that the @dbuzz witness encounters issues). 🤔
Yeah, I was thinking the same 😀
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So what's your plan regarding that? 🤔 #Privex charges at least $50 a month for their Hive-in-a-box™ VPS. 😑
We'll see.. I'm working on it now.
It is still syncing right now.
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Did you just mean the @dbuzz witness node was not running the time you made that comment? 🤔
I don't check that all the time. 😑