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Title: Running a Node off a VPS Post by: Squrk on December 18, 2012, 11:17:48 AM Hello,
I have a VPS which I am not using and I am probably never going to use, So I will thinking of running it as a bitcoin node. Am I correct in saying all I need to do is run bitcoind with the argument "-server"? I have opened port 8332 and while running "bitcoind -server" I do not see any network activity. 2 scenarios exist that I can see. 1. I am doing it wrong. Which is very likely 2. The network activity is so low that it doesn't even show up on my graphs Thanks for any help. Title: Re: Running a Node off a VPS Post by: Bitsino on December 18, 2012, 10:37:04 PM Is this a Linux of Windows VPS? If it's Linux, you can use "netstat -lan | grep -i tcp" to see all connections in or out. This should give you a good idea of what is connected currently.
The first time I ran bitcoind, it took a long time for the RPC server to get up and running. I am not sure why, but it might have to set up a number of things the first time it runs. Make sure your bitcoin.conf files is set up. Again, in Linux this will be in ~/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf. Mine looks like this: rpcuser=bitsinorpc rpcpassword=akjcv093k92nfo9sSDFck3n92MCodklmw23 And finally, I choose to run bitcoind as a daemon: "./bitcoind -daemon" Title: Re: Running a Node off a VPS Post by: hamdi on December 19, 2012, 12:57:55 AM install nmap and scan localhost. if you see the right ports open, your daemon is running.
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