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[WastedLTC]

What about MooCowMoos service masternode.me?
35 USD a quarter per MN, payable in DASH.

I`m super happy with it.

oh nice, didn't know about that service.   awesome

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[moocowmoo]

What about MooCowMoos service masternode.me?
35 USD a quarter per MN, payable in DASH.

I`m super happy with it.

oh nice, didn't know about that service.   awesome

Glad to have you on board, Macno!

Yeah, WastedLTC, I don't put much time into promotion.
I keep busy working on other projects, dashman and dashvend most recently.
I built masternode.me as a fun project and service to the community.
And, I'm happy to say that I've had great success keeping everybody's nodes online and stable over the past 15 months.

[tungfa]

[moocowmoo]

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:

Code:

for node in node001 node002 ; do ssh $node 'dash-cli getinfo | grep blocks' ; done

or

Code:

for node in node001 node002 ; do ssh $node 'dash-cli masternode debug' ; done

and eventually

Code:

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.

[TanteStefana2]

What about MooCowMoos service masternode.me?
35 USD a quarter per MN, payable in DASH.

I`m super happy with it.

oh nice, didn't know about that service.   awesome

Glad to have you on board, Macno!

Yeah, WastedLTC, I don't put much time into promotion.
I keep busy working on other projects, dashman and dashvend most recently.
I built masternode.me as a fun project and service to the community.
And, I'm happy to say that I've had great success keeping everybody's nodes online and stable over the past 15 months.

I had absolutely no idea you ran a service!  Bravo!  It seems we have quite a few!  That's really awesome. 

[Macno]

Great explanation Mow! Thanks! Makes me even happier now to know what I don`t even need to know thanks to your service!  
You`re really doing a great job! Your service is so easy to use and affordable AND you even spend a lot of time explaining and helping if needed, I am really impressed!

Go check it out folks:

https://masternode.me

[Honest Tim]

I don't suppose anyone knows when the Easter edition of the Tokcast is due out?

[tombtc]

10k buy order at 0.0175

[fuzzyduck]

STEP 1:

Look at Ethereum ALL graph:
http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/

STEP 2

Look at this chart:
http://blog.stocktwits.com/wp-content/uploads/original_15986178.png

See the resemblance? A classic bubble chart forming. Seems in capitulation phase right now.

[TaoOfSaatoshi]

This doesn't feel like a pump. We are now in a positive feedback loop with more people learning about Dash, followed by increased price, attracting more people to learn about Dash, followed by increased price, and so on.

To know Dash is to love Dash, plain and simple. Enjoy the ride, Dash Nation!

[HinnomTX]

I don't suppose anyone knows when the Easter edition of the Tokcast is due out?

Yeah, where is Tok? We need some chart porn.

[noobtrader]

STEP 1:

Look at Ethereum ALL graph:
http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/

STEP 2

Look at this chart:
http://blog.stocktwits.com/wp-content/uploads/original_15986178.png

See the resemblance? A classic bubble chart forming. Seems in capitulation phase right now.

either that, or this is just the bear trap phase.    

bitcoin and ethereum is still on awareness phase on global scale, lot more ppl which are not invested imho.
 

[qwizzie]

10k buy order at 0.0175

i have this weird feeling we will reach 0.02 a lot faster then most of us anticipated or dreamed about  

edit : which is a good thing of course 

[pille]

10k buy order at 0.0175

i have this weird feeling we will reach 0.02 a lot faster then most of us anticipated or dreamed about  

edit : which is a good thing of course  

and it's gone... whales playing a wired game

[qwizzie]

Baddddd raptor !!!

[kointrend]

10k buy order at 0.0175

i have this weird feeling we will reach 0.02 a lot faster then most of us anticipated or dreamed about  

edit : which is a good thing of course 

Someone dream very conservative...what is your Mars value? Mine is 0.1 (atm around 40$)

[Solarminer]

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.

Moocowmoo is right.  You need about 400MB of ram per node.  I believe Vultr only has 768MB or ram for the basic.  The nodes will start out with about 300MB of ram and creep up over a few days causing your crashing.

You have a few options:
Pay for a hosting providing by Moocowmoo, Splawik, node40, etc.  They setup automatic scripts and know how to keep nodes running.  Some also have easy ways to vote too.

Get a VPS with more ram.  Typically, a 2GB ram VPS can come with a few IPs and is your best bet for cost.  http://lowendbox.com is a good place to find offers and deals.  But this is probably not your most reliable option.  If a host says they don't offer 24/7 support - that means the end of a billing period they can shut you down at midnight and you wait until they wake up at 9am the next day to help get you started.  Or the drive fills up on Saturday, nodes crash, and you wait until Monday for them to fix it.  Ideally, you want a service that guaranties 1hr or less downtime 24/7 - not saying they exist in your price range.  You can loose several days of payments for just a 90 minute outage.

You can get static IPs from your ISP.  Typically, this is more expensive, but in the future with higher ram/disk requirements this might be the better deal.  Then run a computer with ubuntu behind a router on a ups.

Hop on this site and look at the masternode service providers for the full list and help on setting everything up.
http://dashmasternode.org

Moocowmoo has a restart script and an easy updater called dashman.  See the bolehvpn link he provided in his post to setup both.

Also there is a site dedicated to monitoring your nodes and voting.  Install the dwupdater and it will restart and notify you when your nodes have a problem.  http://dashwhale.org

For status, you can setup a bookmark specific to your nodes with the dashninja by adding your IPs or addresses in the middle - no spaces.
https://dashninja.pl/?mnregexp=%28 put IPs or public dress here separated by | %29#mnlistdetail

If you have any other questions or just want to chat with some of the community, join the Dash Chat Slack - link in my signature below.

[qwizzie]

10k buy order at 0.0175

i have this weird feeling we will reach 0.02 a lot faster then most of us anticipated or dreamed about  

edit : which is a good thing of course  

Someone dream very conservative...what is your Mars value? Mine is 0.1 (atm around 40$)

yeah you are right, mine is actually a lot higher then 0.02.
It was ment more as psychological barrier, i think Dash has the ability to easily tripple or quadruple
in value from here,  given enough time. And i'm definetely in no hurry.

Also there is something very addictive about receiving masternode payments on a regular basis ....

[spatula]

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.

Moocowmoo is right.  You need about 400MB of ram per node.  I believe Vultr only has 768MB or ram for the basic.  The nodes will start out with about 300MB of ram and creep up over a few days causing your crashing.

You have a few options:
Pay for a hosting providing by Moocowmoo, Splawik, node40, etc.  They setup automatic scripts and know how to keep nodes running.  Some also have easy ways to vote too.

Get a VPS with more ram.  Typically, a 2GB ram VPS can come with a few IPs and is your best bet for cost.  http://lowendbox.com is a good place to find offers and deals.  But this is probably not your most reliable option.  If a host says they don't offer 24/7 support - that means the end of a billing period they can shut you down at midnight and you wait until they wake up at 9am the next day to help get you started.  Or the drive fills up on Saturday, nodes crash, and you wait until Monday for them to fix it.  Ideally, you want a service that guaranties 1hr or less downtime 24/7 - not saying they exist in your price range.  You can loose several days of payments for just a 90 minute outage.

You can get static IPs from your ISP.  Typically, this is more expensive, but in the future with higher ram/disk requirements this might be the better deal.  Then run a computer with ubuntu behind a router on a ups.

Hop on this site and look at the masternode service providers for the full list and help on setting everything up.
http://dashmasternode.org

Moocowmoo has a restart script and an easy updater called dashman.  See the bolehvpn link he provided in his post to setup both.

Also there is a site dedicated to monitoring your nodes and voting.  Install the dwupdater and it will restart and notify you when your nodes have a problem.  http://dashwhale.org

For status, you can setup a bookmark specific to your nodes with the dashninja by adding your IPs or addresses in the middle - no spaces.
https://dashninja.pl/?mnregexp=%28 put IPs or public dress here separated by | %29#mnlistdetail

If you have any other questions or just want to chat with some of the community, join the Dash Chat Slack - link in my signature below.

Also, some types of VPS (including vultr) allow the creation of swap space. If the VPS is on SSD this usually works pretty well.

[toknormal]

Yeah, where is Tok?

At the beach. Enjoying an Ice Cream.