I know you didn't ask us, but here's a photo of one of our @privex racks in Sweden - with our logo on it for confirmation :)
(the photos are a bit old, ignore the steemit.com link)
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I know you didn't ask us, but here's a photo of one of our @privex racks in Sweden - with our logo on it for confirmation :)
(the photos are a bit old, ignore the steemit.com link)
Thank you @someguy123 😊
I am actually very interested in this.
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Amazon has already shown its stripes as a politically motivated anti-free speech company.
Privex is the opposite. Very pro free speech and decentralization and located in Belize so the US government can't easily pressure it.
All third party providers are a risk but Privex is probably the safest option if you have to use a third party provider.
Also @someguy123 is a great guy who has helped me heaps in getting my witness nodes running.
Yeah, I don't know that many people yet @apshamilton since I still am fairly new.
But I replied in this thread about why I think Witnesses who own THEIR OWN hardware, IN THEIR possession, is even more secure than #Privex.
Times are changing, it's getting real, and BIG Governments + Corporations + Billionaires have a lot of sway.
I love people, and I want to get to know @someguy123 and everyone else in the #HIVE community, but IMO the above makes sense, and is intended to save ALL of us from getting wiped out by Governments and #BigTech.
Feelings aside, #NotYourHardwareNotYourWitness.
Actually, since we're Belize-based, not US based, we can stand up for free speech to the max. It's extremely difficult to legally threaten a Belize-based company to censor anyone or hand over data due to it's lack of MLATs (check my comments, I explained this in a reply a few weeks ago).
One example - there's still a fair amount of Steem witnesses who use our services, we just don't actively assist them with Steem-specific packages. While we morally disagree on what Steemit Inc. has done, and their witnesses - we try to stand neutral, and won't "ban" anyone for anything that isn't clearly illegal (child porn, terrorism, etc.)
Recently, @privex was labelled as "Bulletproof Hosting" on a large Japanese wiki due to us refusing to comply with the Japanese police in the name of free speech :)
https://krsw-wiki.org/wiki/%E9%98%B2%E5%BC%BE%E3%83%9B%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0
Nice, so #Privex might be better than #AWS and other alternatives, but Witnesses who own their own Hardware is even more secure than that @someguy123.
There is also the issue of:
Companies AND Countries changing or even breaking their policies & laws (i.e. John McAfee was arrested in Spain, a country that had laws against him being arrested on behalf of the US)
Most #HIVE Witnesses are likely using #Privex, and it's better to decentralize among 20+ unique entities, vs. having 10 - 20 Witnesses securing the blockchain with just 1 to 3 hosting companies.
Witnesses should compete for votes, and IMO they need to compete by buying their own Hardware.. it's better for everyone @someguy123, and @apshamilton made it sound like it can even save You money.
I warned Witnesses, especially #TheCryptoDrive that exchanges could be used to take over the #Steem blockchain and it happened.
I was against the #HBDPotato proposal, and those funds were later Powered Up for personal use.
If we are going to stand against Governments, Billionaires, Conglomerates and #BigTech, I think it's common sense we should secure the network with OUR OWN hardware, not via 3rd parties like #AWS or #Privex, regardless of their standing.
#NotYourHardwareNotYourWitness
P.S. Do you work for #Privex, or was that just a quote from them, not you?
@Someguy123 is the CEO and founder of Privex Inc. - as shown on our site https://www.privex.io/about
Unfortunately, Privex isn't actually popular among the top 20, believe it or not - there's maybe 3 or 4 of the top 20 (including @someguy123 - who owns his own physical server in SE) spread across Privex's 7 regions (SE, US, DE, FI, JP, NL, CA), and our regions are spread across different company's datacenters, rather than just one company who owns all of the DCs in every region.
A lot of our Hive customers are either rank <30, or simply use us for seeds, RPC nodes, or hosting their Hive-related applications.
Ah okay, awesome thank you @privex and @someguy123 that makes sense and is GREAT news!! 😀
I hope more people will get listed and people will vote 😀🎉🏆
What if a Hive user rents #Privex's "Hive-in-a-box™" VPS service? 🤔 Do you think they deserve to get Hive witness votes? 🤨
I would like to take this a step further and port the nodes to meshnets for ultimate decentralization (as far as I know).
WOW teach me how to do that @diggndeeper.com
Please do one and tag me so I can see it! 😀
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I don't know if I can teach you, but I would be super stoked to learn with you and others. I do have some knowledge of meshnets, but I don't currently have the ability to glue it all together. It takes a community and I will do everything I can to dig as deep as I can. (Sorry to keep using the DiggnDeeper pun,)
Check out this article I wrote a day or so ago as a start to refreshing my research into meshnets
https://peakd.com/blockchain/@diggndeeper.com/reignitingthemeshnetswhenweneedthemmost-yp59b2maalcw9fos5qkx
I bookmarked it for now, but please, keep in touch and tag me if there's news.
It might be good for us to have a Voice or Video call after I read your post 🙂👍
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@apshamilton said he bought his hardware w/the equivalent of 9 months worth of server rent
It would be good if the #Top20, and all Witnesses used their own Hardware of some kind, in THEIR possession, not via #Privex or #AWS
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I really don't think its fair to bundle AWS and Privex together for the reasons set out above.
There is a place for rented servers, but balance and diversity is needed.
I am lucky to have a home with very high speed internet, reliable power, the space to put multiple tower case computers, lots of left over computer equipment from ETH mining in 2017/18, and the skills to build computers from parts.
Many witnesses don't have this. Some don't even have a fixed address. Very few people have fibre to their desk at home. Some live in places where power outages are quite common.
I do think that its worthwhile buying hardware rather than renting it if you can afford to (but not all can).
Even if you have to pay for hosting at a small data center, the risk of a small operator interfering with your owned hardware or breaking contract by turning it off is far lower than with Big Tech companies that think they are beyond the law.
Also, if you own the hardware its easier to keep running nodes even when witness earnings are low because of a low Hive price.
There IS a place for rented servers, and I am interested in using @privex in the future ✔️
BUT,
We need the hardware securing the #HIVE blockchain to be divided among 20+ different HARDWARE OWNERS, not among 19, 10, 5 or 3 hosting co.'s who then lease to the #Top20
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If you are interested in using @privex, you might want to use it as a Backup Node (in case, hopefully not, that the @dbuzz witness encounters issues). 🤔
Yeah, I was thinking the same 😀
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So what's your plan regarding that? 🤔 #Privex charges at least $50 a month for their Hive-in-a-box™ VPS. 😑
We'll see.. I'm working on it now.
It is still syncing right now.
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