I was poking around a friends NXT client today and saw lots of NXT nodes running on centralized VPS servers.

I thought a decentralised network had nodes on different internet service providers, in different cities, and under control of different operators.  That would discourage DDOS attacks, offer more route timing options, and handle data center upset.

But, the concentrated VPS nodes I see running NXT  (like node19.mynxt.info and node70.nxtbase.com)  mislead users into thinking the network is more protected than it really is.

It looks like HALF the NXT nodes are VPS ones.  This tells me something about the lack of popularity of the system or somebody is trying to hide something?