Quote from: phillipsjk on June 15, 2014, 06:56:43 PM

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Quote from: AdamSC1 on May 12, 2014, 06:35:40 PM

Does anyone know if this pricing is locked in year over year? If so I'm going to have to set up a ton of these!

Cheers,
Adam

There is some risk concentrating them all in the same data-center.

I have idle long-term plans to set up a Bitcoin node in Iceland, which I believe to be relatively Bitcoin friendly. Would be valuable if Bitcoin is ever banned at home.

Wouldn't the same risk be present if the servers that host the nodes are leased by the same provider?

The person I was responding to was talking about spinning up a bunch of identical nodes in the same data-center. Are you asking if 1 server is just as risky as a bunch? I think my point is you don't get the same diversity benefits with all of them in one place.

My "idle long-term plans" are essentially about keeping the network going if the G8 decide to crack down on it. My current ISP prohibits illegal use in their TOS. So if hosting a node becomes illegal, I would have to shut it down: or move it to a more friendly jurisdiction.

But what if Amazon (or whoever you are leasing from) decides to try to attack the network. Couldn't they essentially take over the existing nodes and launch double spending attacks against people who accept 0/unconfirmed transactions (or other attacks that utilize nodes as opposed to miners).