Quote from: eduffield on April 25, 2016, 06:20:38 PM

Quote from: eduffield on April 25, 2016, 05:23:28 PM

Hey everyone, I tried to address all of the questions you guys had on the The DashRoundtable above. If anything remained unanswered or has some ambiguity feel free to rephrase your questions and we can continue the conversation.

Someone was asking about the private server idea, here's some clarification:

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The private webserver part comes from the idea that we could setup a amazon AMI that has apache, the database, dashd, sentinel, and the main web gui setup. So if you want a dash wallet and you don't want to setup all of that, you could just clone our api, then visit https://www.your-aws-instance.com/ and then follow the web gui setup instructions. If you tell evolution where your instance is, it means it's like your own little private server.

Well, from this, I have to wonder why we would want to do this? That's not clear.

would you run your own wallet in there? Does this mean you can have a mobile wallet on your phone, but it doesn't connect through the DAPI to a MN quorum to view balances, etc... but rather your own full wallet/node?

And/Or is this simply a way to keep a copy of what would eventually be in sharded storage from the network, but your information would also be backed up on your private VPS in case of catastrophic failure?

And/Or is this so that people can tunnel to their own private VPN for secure internet access?

I'm just confused. I would think that Amazon wouldn't be the only service that could run this, right? I mean, we should be able to use any VPS? Or? Are you using Amazon as an example only because they have the ability to create an AMI (an image of a hard drive that's already set up for you to enter your personal info into)?

I get this feeling you have totally other reasons for this???