CROSSPOSTING from Dashtalk
Hello
I am a proud owner of some Masternodes. I've posted sometimes here and on BCtalk, but I am not enough a technical savvy to do things properly, so I've always looked at guides (thanks Tao!) and on the forum to understand what to do.
Glad you put the time in. Following guides is a good way to learn.
I strongly believe that DASH is a great project, and I want to be part of it. Also, I want my "process" to run smoothly without a lot of issues, downtimes, drops of connectivity.
The cloud provider you choose has a lot to do with that.
I actually hold my masternodes on Vultr. While i am extremely happy with their service, they are great if you have a single masternode, and they become borderline even with 2-3 nodes.
It's pretty easy to understand why. The cheap VPS will hold a node. If you try to have 2 IPs on the same VPS it's extremely hard for it to manage. I currently do that, but every once in a while a node drops and that means money.
Also, with EVOLUTION coming i fear that the VPS won't be able to hold 2 nodes.
OFC, you can buy more instances.
You're near overloading the instance running 2 dashd's. You shouldn't do that.
I understand your desire to maximize profit, but consider the larger impact on
the currency and the impression it leaves it's users if one of your nodes is
selected but too overloaded to perform mixes or create instantx locks.
Your masternodes are an important component of the dash network, treat them
accordingly.
But in the end, if you have a certain amount of nodes it's much better to have a single server (not a VPS, a server) that hosts ALL the nodes.
I've considered this before, and have decided against it.
It's much more likely for one server to:
- be DOS'ed
- be hacked
- have hardware fail
- have network fail
I am here to ask for the following:
- Identify a proper service given the amount of nodes i want to setup. ANY advice is welcome (online.net my current pic)
- Move all my nodes to the new service. It should be trivial actually (it's just a change of IP)
- Setup on the new machine ALL the proper alerts if a node goes down, if something is wrong, whatever. This is something where i need help from a Linux-confident person
- More stuff that i may have to do
For the last 2 I understand that some time is required, so i will pay some DASH (tell me your price) to who helps me. OFC i will lurk the net to understand who wants to help and see if he's a good fellow
PLEASE NOTE: if by any chance you think that VULTR is still better just tell me why
Cheers,
Giulio
The proper service today is cloud hosting across several providers and countries. Diversity is good for Dash.
Trying different small providers is how you find the good ones.
On those *individual hosts*, follow this guide and make sure you do step 8:
https://www.bolehvpn.net/blog/2016/02/07/what-is-a-dash-masternode-and-how-do-i-set-up-one/To manage your menagerie, learn to setup ssh keys and create an ~/.ssh/config file so you can do neat stuff like:
for node in node001 node002 ; do ssh $node 'dash-cli getinfo | grep blocks' ; done
or
for node in node001 node002 ; do ssh $node 'dash-cli masternode debug' ; done
and eventually
for node in `seq -w 001 020` ; do ssh node-${node} 'dash-cli masternode debug' ; done
I hope some of this makes sense to you. Remember that your $5 a month vps starts to get really cheap as dash's price increases, and having a strong, performant network goes a long way toward that goal.