[2016-03-22] New Bitfury Data Shows That Over Half of Classic Nodes Come from Amazon / Choopa, Not Dedicated Servers

[LiteCoinGuy]

New Bitfury Data Shows That Over Half of Classic Nodes Come from Amazon / Choopa, Not Dedicated Servers

http://www.bitcoinfuturesguide.com/bitc ... ed-servers

[iFixBTCmemoryIssues]

New Bitfury Data Shows That Over Half of Classic Nodes Come from Amazon / Choopa, Not Dedicated Servers

http://www.bitcoinfuturesguide.com/bitc ... ed-servers

This makes the news??

[arnoudk]

This is not surprising in the slightest. Classic nodes get DDoSed all the time. So they migrate to places where DDoS is ineffective: AWS datacenters and similar.

In fact, nodes hosted in professional datacenters are arguably more valuable to the ecosystem as they have better resources at their disposal.

Yes you can run a node at home. That does not make your home node more valuable than a professionally hosted node.

I run 5 datacenter nodes. (1 is currently deliberately offline as I can't afford that server to be DDoSed). One of them is in AWS. Not couting the 3 classic-cloud nodes I sponsored. How are these less valuable to the home/office node?

Here in Belize, I have a 1.2 mbps down and 0.5 mbps up link (and it's surprisingly expensive!). In the datacenter, I think, it is 100 mbps per node. My nodes each upload more data per day, than my internet connection could possibly achieve in a month, for a lot less money.

For everyone that believes datacenter hosted services are bad: go host youtube from your adsl account! Go for it! And keep downscaling the quality until it works - don't compromise on the idea that it should be uploadable on your ADSL line

Or are space age financial services less valuable than home videos of cats?

[LiteCoinGuy]

that could be a reason indeed. anyway, i like it when nodes are more distributed than classic nodes at the moment.

didnt know that you come from Belize, cool



could be my next destination for holidays