SteemDevs Gearing Up To Partner With Venyu Datacenter (EATEL Business)
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SteemDevs community and projects are growing at such a fast rate that cloud hosting is becoming less and less a viable option for us. To address this problem, we have a couple people researching the best datacenters to partner with to provide a continuing 99.999% uptime for all of our services.
With this upgrade is going to come a huge increase in business operating expenses. However, we firmly believe that this upgrade step is a necessary one to be able to provide the kind of reliability we desire.
On our Roadmap, we plan to have:
- A VMWare ESX Host that keeps microservices in containers
- Network traffic logging and analysis -- paired with IPS/IDS systems
- Hundreds of GB of RAM
- Potential to rent hobby/dev servers at a reduced cost than AWS or competing cloud hosting providers
- A constantly updated database server that replicates the STEEM blockchain
- Network status information -- to be used for downtimes and maintenance announcements
On top of these services, we are also working hard to create eBooks and tutorials for becoming a full time (freelance) Steem developer. Our tutorials will be provided with code samples and recorded videos, as well as some level of one-on-one time with a developer.
We are currently building out the platform that will allow all of this to take place on the Steem blockchain (well, as much as possible on the blockchain with the rest happening offchain). If you are interested in more information, I advise you to stay posted for announcements about SteemDevs from me, the group, or on our Discord server
All that we ask is please help us spread the word and invite people to the SteemDevs community so that we can continue to grow and teach new users how to build out the Steem network. Maybe a vote and a resteem, too!
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*PSST: We will likely maintain a couple racks at various datacenters around the United States before branching out even further. For now, we will start near my hometime where I can employ trustworthy individuals to help manage the physical needs of the servers when I am out of town.
(The datacenter employees could also do this if I allowed them; I will not be allowing them.)
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Wow! What a good news n development from steemit community. Its a n amazing idea. My suggestions goes thus we have steemian basucally several countries. They can as well help in steemDev atleast steemian with high reputations. This will go a long way in avoiding self-centered partner. But anyway this is an fabulous development
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This is awesome, glad to see SteemDevs working to keep pacce with the growth of steem and make it so anyone will be able to add to steemit. Thanks for your work!
Voted for you man
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I was under the impression that basically anything that isn't hosted on the cloud for Steem's blochchain was run by witnesses kind of? I know witnesses basically are the trusted servers that are verifying the blockchain and maintaining it, but I guess I somewhat understand why additional data centers would be needed.
Would the data centers maybe handle everything done by SMTs once that launch happens, since Steem will most likely get a lot of attention when that happens?
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Ok, I know it is a little confusing, but SteemDevs is a group that is not affiliated with Steemit.
We just program and provide services for users on the Steem blockchain. Now, we will definitely be supporting SMTs in our lessons and tutorials, and we will give users lessons about the inner workings of Steem. We will also teach people how to setup their Witness servers and provide one-on-one support.
With that being said, I am not talking about hosting the actual STEEM Blockchain in a datacenter. (However, as you mentioned, I may very well put a second, or third, witness server in the datacenter for redundancy.)
The call for the datacenter originates from our groups own needs. We host many services, several currently hosted via AWS, for ourselves or for other groups/users. Having a dedicated space in a datacenter will allow us to save a little bit of cost on this particular expenditure (hosting services for other people), however, it will add to our overall expenditures because rack space in a high available datacenter isnt cheap.
The reason for the physical servers is because we can reuse and repurpose them indefinitely. As we know that we will continue to use the hardware for the next 5+ years, we will save drastically over cloud hosting in the long run.
I hope this makes sense and helped cleared up some confusion
(Witnesses, as well as seed nodes, are necessary for the Steem blockchain to continue to operate in a decentralized fashion. Ideally, we want our witnesses and seed nodes on a wide range of different hosting providers so if one experiences catastrophic failure, the entire network does not die -- this means we must also strive to have servers in different regions too, because a hurricane in the south might cause immense damage to all servers hosted there or their ability to connect. Having backups in other regions helps prevent failure due to natural occurrences.)
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No that definitely made sense. I think my misinterpretation of SteemDevs is what just threw me off! No it definitely makes sense why you all would want to have datacenters then, that would make things a lot simpler than how it sounds it is now.
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Good post @netuoso, I want to support you,..
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Wow, a good move.
Which services do you guys run? I am interested to do my toes in the steem blockchain though it is quite daunting.
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We are building out a gaming platform and a teaching platform. I could keep adding AWS instances and use spot pricing but it adds a level of complexity that doesnt exist with a local datacenter. Also, the datacenter I am talking with has immense security measures that prevent anyone from accessing your hardware.
I would say the same for the various cloud hosting providers, but I have no proof of that. With Venyu, I can walk in their facility and see exactly what is happening. I am also allowed to install my own security devices if I wish.
(We are also learning how to name projects without having the world STEEM in them lol)
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Hmm, I love seeing people partnering with one another here on steemit. It helps to build up relationship and that know man is independent or indispensable
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Great news. Resteemed the post.
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Good news ！！！
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Well done and im happy to see continous development :). Also i have a small suggestion. Since estonia is e country and it has quite alot to offer have you considered looking for potencial partners from there? and already someone has made us a system that we can pay our bills with bitcoins which is quite convinient.
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Absolutely amazing........resteemed....
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