[NODE Boot Camp: Creating your own 24/7 online node in 30 minutes]

NODE Boot Camp: Creating your own 24/7 online node in 30 minutes

We created this brief tutorial for everybody who’d like to take the opportunity to earn money by running his own Linux server node without additional knowledge and training.

Your own server node allows you to receive passive income for the clock network support.
In addition, you get a full hosting for your own project at your disposal, and you will be able to compensate up to 100% of its rent already now, in beta stage of Node project.
Node.js uses resources very sparingly so if you already have a Linux hosting with root access then you must install a Linux node since you can do all of the above without a single penny cost and with a minimum load of server resources.


First stage:  Linux hosting selection & payment

Today's market is full of inexpensive hosting offerings that meet our requirements. Keywords we are looking for: Linux hosting with root access.

Why Linux? It’s much cheaper and more secure than Windows servers.
Windows Server we need costs not less than $ 30 a month while the average Linux Server will cost less than $ 10.

There is a lot of suggestions online, so you may find any Linux hosting yourself in accordance with your preferences and the budget. For our test we chose Yourserver.se because they accept Bitcoins, allows monthly payment and offers a package with root access for one of the most competitive prices on the market - 4 euros per month (around $ 4.8 ).

We tested 7 euros package ($ 8.4) because of its great features but 4 euros package in theory should also be OK for us.

So, after you select the package we need to choose the Billing Cycle, and Operating System (Configurable Options).

You choose Billing Cycle at your sole discretion and then we select Debian as operating system since it’s most appropriate to us: Debian is incredibly fast and economical.

After completion of registration and payment of a hosting plan for any of the chosen provider we receive email with parameters of our server:

     1) I.P. address of your server (e.g. 88.198.18.221)
     2) username (root) & password to access to your server.



Second stage: Linux client installation

To install the Linux client on your server you will need to do the following:

     1) Download Linux Node Client: http://nodecoin.com/node.linux.latest.zip

     2) Connect to your server via SFTP. In our case we used for that WebDrive software (http://www.webdrive.com)

     3) Unzip the archive node.linux.latest.zip to any convenient folder on the server. In our case, we have created a “node” folder in the “/var” directory (/var/node)

     4) Connect to your server via SSH terminal (in our case we used for that ZOC Terminal software (http://www.emtec.com/zoc). All following steps we make in SSH terminal.

     5) Installation of Node.Js
         To install Node.js all you need is to type consistently the the following commands in a terminal:

         $ apt-get install python g++ make
          $ wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
          $ tar xvfvz node-latest.tar.gz
          $ cd node-v0.10.34  (replace on node.js current release number you downloaded)
          $ ./configure
          $ make
          $ sudo make install

     6) Go to the folder where you unzipped client (node.linux.latest.zip) by typing the command in the terminal: cd DIR.
         In our case, the command would look like this:

         cd /var/node/

     7) Consistently execute the following commands

         npm install
          npm -g install forever
          forever start index.js

Installation is complete. Congratulations, you are lucky enough to own a private server node, which will be online around the clock. Now you no longer dependent on the working computer so you can collect “Activity Points” and generate income consistently.
You can access your server client through any browser window: your_ip: 19775. For example: 88.198.18.221:19975

If you have any questions or difficulties, we will gladly help you with a free consultation or installation.
Thank you for supporting Node network

Always Yours,
Node Dev Team

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Ok, I'm finally accumulating a decent balance from my bter withdrawals into my wallet.  To forge, all I need to do is login and log out?  Or do I have to stay logged in?

If you or anybody else have 500,000 and stable access to the Internet, I'd highly recommend to keep it on your own wallet.

Today Anrdew (Paramon) told me that he forged 100,000 in less than 3 weeks (7981595429821076186).

I've had my wallet open with 500,000 node running 24/7 with minimal downtime and have forged less than 8,000 node.  Not sure if I'm doing something wrong or if he's just exploiting the system.

I do not think so. As far as I know, Andie launched his client on a dedicated server at a good channel. Most likely, his client keeps more stable connection with the others.

Yes I running node 7/24 on windows azure. My uptime 17 days + every day I have small transaction from bter (1.5k-2k).

Yes, I said to NodeClub that I find almost every 3 block per day and that my account has been increased by more than 100K NODE.

But not all the money extracted forging.

I did not think that it will be published on the forum. I would like to clarify.

Real statistics for forge in my account 7981595429821076186:

Found:                          89 blocks
Total fee forged:            25879.15682 NODE
Forged fee:
MIN                                   0.00001
MAX                             2501.86645
AVG                               290.77704

BTW I will give access to the api from my node where anyone will be able check forging block for any account number (login will be not required) soon.

我运行的节点7/24在Windows Azure上. 我的正常运行时间是17天+我每天都从bter小交易（1500-2000节点）
...
在我的帐户真正的统计7981595429821076186是：

发现：89块
总费用锻造：25879.15682节点
锻造费用：
最低: 0.00001
极大: 2501.86645
平均: 290.77704

顺便说一句，很快我就可以访问从我的节点API，任何人都可以检查锻造块的任何账号（登录将不需要）。

Found:                          89 blocks
Total fee forged:            25879.15682 NODE
Forged fee:
MIN                                   0.00001
MAX                             2501.86645
AVG                               290.77704

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