Quote from: camosoul on May 28, 2014, 04:02:53 AM

Quote from: Minotaur26 on May 28, 2014, 04:01:20 AM

Quote from: Propulsion on May 28, 2014, 03:50:38 AM

Quote from: humanitee on May 28, 2014, 03:46:47 AM

Quote from: InternetApe on May 28, 2014, 03:25:16 AM

He learned the HARDWAY how not to setup your masternode. I will be putting together a list of things to check and an ISO and AMI for people to use with MOST of the issue addressed, you will still be responsible for checking any think I missed and verify it works for your setup.

I would like to request for no AMI images. There are already too many Amazon servers (over 50%) and I believe having a readily available image will just encourage more centralization! Just do ISO's, please!

Amazon already has the firewall locked down.

Root login without a .pem key is disabled.

Just the .pem key alone would of saved him.

This just shows though, that you absolutely need to be running a remote and local set up.

I would like to have an AMI from InternetApe, I don't see why you wouldn't help all the people running Amazon nodes. People will move if detailed instructions and guidance from the Dev team is provided, the notion that people will move from Amazon without this is unrealistic.

You can repeat that non IT experts shouldn't run masternodes all you want, there is money to be make and people will run them. That is why the model was created to help by keeping coins out of circulation, so it is in the best interest of the project and the duty of the dev team to support the masternode ops whether new or expert with everything possible including AMI´s.

Experts? Even a total noob should know better. You're right. Stupid people are going to do stupid stuff no matter what I say... But what sort of man stands idly by and watches an essential aspect of the DRK network get buttfucked by idiots? I can't buy those stolen DRK on Cryptsy as morons sell into my waiting jaws... This buttfucks DRKs infrastructure directly.

I was just saying official guidance, best practices, etc, is expected from the Dev team. This case in particular was an extreme, I consider myself a noob and I don't have any of those errors and oversights, not one. My point is the dev team needs to remain neutral and realistic and provide all the help possible because people with multiple backgrounds will most definitely run the nodes.