This is awesome, very fair price too :)
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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What's the point though? A 3rd party (kuyun) still has full control over it. No different that doing it on AWS except that you pay in Monero. This is not good for the network since again one party has control and is being payed to host them.
I'd posit that it is good for the network. Decentralization means running on all number of hosting providers from AWS, OHV, and Linode to smaller providers like KYUN and, perhaps most importantly, home servers.
But the hosting providers have physical access. You don't. They have controll you don't. You can't argue decentralization if all the nodes are owned by a couple of hosting providers.
All nodes aren't owned by a couple of hosting providers, but the plethora of hosting providers can contribute to decentralization.
Yep, that's the Wikipedia entry for decentralization. I've done some work editing the Monero entry.
Decentralization means we need people running monerod on their phones, laptops, at their homes, and in data centers.
of course, hosting a node at home is the best option. but maybe you don't have 200gb of ssd storage at home. maybe you have a slow network. maybe you want to use a mobile wallet such as monerujo without using someone else's untrusted node or having to deal with port forwarding (that is, if your ISP even lets you port-forward) and having to leave your machine or a server running 24/7 at home. i myself needed such a service because i don't have any servers at home (i don't own much hardware, in case LE decides to come one day and seize all my shit). besides that, i'm behind CGNAT and don't have enough space on my nvme drive right now. this is why i created this plan
Sounds like alot of maybes. I don't understand why you need to pay someone to run a node but ig it's your money. You can also run a pruned node it uses ~70% less storage. I'm running mine on hdd. Just sync on SSD and copy over to hdd. You can prolly get a le potato for 35$ a cheap hdd for 20$ and run it at home. Or just get a cheap computer from Facebook marketplace or something. This way you own the hardware for a lifetime while actually contributing to decentralization.
right, you could do that, or you could host it on a vps, the choice is yours. no one's forcing you to do anything, or even implying that you should do one over the other