I have my own server sitting next to me that serves as a backup, and my main server is being hosted on Privex. Both work very well, but I keep paying the server bill because I like the freedom it affords me in handling things like forks and replays.
I have my own server sitting next to me that serves as a backup, and my main server is being hosted on Privex. Both work very well, but I keep paying the server bill because I like the freedom it affords me in handling things like forks and replays.
All due respect to Privex and people that use them, but it's concerning to me on their home page they are offering pre-packaged witness nodes. It begs the question: how many people such as yourself are using them?
A lot
Almost scared to ask, but... How many in the upper ranks?
I am not 100% sure but I would guess half.
Ironically this is the blockchain I've spent the least amount of technical time on. I'm assuming I could spin up a node and run a tcpdump on it and figure out all the IPs. Is it like other blockchains where there are a few pre-coded seed nodes and it just discovers the rest?
Yes. There is a seed node list which are usually not witness nodes. Technically you can get started with only one and pick up the others.