Quote from: thelonecrouton on June 26, 2015, 04:40:59 PM

Quote from: georgem on June 26, 2015, 02:55:54 PM

Quote from: thelonecrouton on June 26, 2015, 02:50:00 PM

I can fit 10 daemons comfortably on a 2GB server with a low end CPU. I'm talking about *coind, not *coin-qt. Maybe you'd need 3 64GB servers... point is it aint much.

And bitcoin bodes can be run on IPv6 addresses, either directly or via a tunnel. IPv6 addresses are practically free.

Yes coind, that's why I repeatedly said "daemons".

You can maybe put 10 "idle" daemons on a 4 GB server, but the moment they actually need to do some work (verifying, etc) they will totally crash the system.

Hey, everybody is invited to back up his claims, I will post a few screenshots later of the CPU and RAM load. (starting up, synching process and idle)

During validation / verification process when a new block has to be checked I have repeatedly seen CPU spike to 100%, because this is a process that gets high priority by the system, because it needs to be done fast so as to be ready for the next block.

Quote from: thelonecrouton on June 26, 2015, 02:50:00 PM

And bitcoin nodes can be run on IPv6 addresses, either directly or via a tunnel. IPv6 addresses are practically free.

We can insist the server use a IPv4 address.

I agree that this is a problem that has to be solved: how to discourage the running of multiple nodes on 1 server.

and SPR's service needs to be competitive.

I do agree.

Other coins could replicate servicenodes, offer the exact same - the PoBN, meaning running a server would be cheaper and more profitable.

Maybe other coins would mimic servicenodes and keep PoBN? If the dev team can pull this off the potential is pretty good, imo.
Maybe other coins would want to jump on the band wagon and add another 500 Randomcoinnodes/bitcoinnodes and gain support by supporting the bitcoin network.

Also, it's irrelevant how easy or hard it is to set up 1000 bitcoin nodes, the fact is there are only 6000 bitcoin nodes worldwide. People just aren't building servers and hosting 1000 nodes, no matter how easy it is, it's just not happening. There isn't a direct financial incentive, so i understand. The thing is SPR can make it financially viable (if successful). It's an interesting proposition with alot of potential.

Like you said tho, SPR still needs to remain competitive.