I like to host Hive seed nodes :) It's a small thing that I do for Hive to help out the platform's health and keep the engine running. Seed nodes are crucial to the Hive ecosystem and are what other nodes sync from. By hosting multiple of these, I'm ensuring that even if one goes down, there's others that can be used by the Hive nodes to get the block data to keep running.
On one of older posts I mentioned that I was using witness votes to try and bring back the NYC seed node. Well, NYC colocation is almost ready but I don't have the funds to buy a server so I'm hoping that the DHF will help pay for the hardware.
I do want to iterate that this DHF proposal is just for the hardware itself. I will be covering the costs of running the server for it's lifetime myself(though witness votes to help cover the cost are greatly appreciated).
The hardware that will be purchased is a Dell server with a Xeon Gold 6143 processor. I've gone with Ryzens for the rest, but going to be trying Intel on this one. Also will be using NVME drives. The total cost shown by the site is $2,109. With taxes, crypto conversion fees and remote hands installation fees, I'm asking for $3,000 to cover the whole machine. For time reasons, I'd like to get this purchased and ideally delivered before the second week of September so I'm asking for it as $600/day for 5 days, with the proposal pay starting from Monday August 18th.
My current seed nodes are in San Fransisco and Chicago(I also have 2 more running in Stockholm and Amsterdam but they aren't running on owned hardware and so aren't part of my "cluster" officially, just there to be backups if everything breaks). With this in NYC, we should have pretty decent coverage in the US.
If you agree with this, please support proposal 354, voting links attached:
Peakd: https://peakd.com/me/proposals/354
Hive.Blog: https://wallet.hive.blog/proposals
Ecency: https://ecency.com/proposals/354
