EOSMetal Infrastructure Upgrade.

EOS Metal
3 min readNov 9, 2018

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Decentralization, independence and transparency are at the core of our values and we are dedicated to maintaining this philosophy throughout our existence as a Block Producer for the EOS community. From the very beginning, we have taken some strong steps in the direction of our core values which includes

  1. Dedicated Bare Metal Servers.

2. Multiple Datacenters from Varied Providers.

3. International hosting locations selected to be geopolitically solvent.

4.Entirely Self-Funded, No Outside Investors to Please.

Intel Xeon W-2125 Server

To keep providing the best in class infrastructure to EOS community, we have recently upgraded and deployed a new customized bare metal server to our infrastructure.

Details and configuration of the new servers is as follows -

  1. Top performant Intel Xeon W-2125

2. 128GB of ECC RAM 2666Mhz (Upgradeable to 512)

3. RAID 10 of SSD Datacenter Enterprise Class Micron 5200 disks.

4. M2 NVME disks for the system

INTEL XEON W-2125

After closely following the studies and research on EOSMechanics channel we opted for Intel XEON W-2125 Servers which has a pretty high-performance component.

Specification
Clock speed: 4.0 GHz
Turbo Speed: 4.5 GHz
No of Cores: 4 (2 logical cores per physical)
Typical TDP: 120 W

Our Infrastructure Layout

The deployed new server on EOS Mainnet.

HeartBeat Monitor

Heartbeat Monitor helps to coordinate BP node status and metadata on-chain. The goal is to show that a standby or active BP is ready for block production in terms version, blacklist sync, configuration, etc.

DATACENTERS

We are using two different datacenters for our infrastructure. Our main node is deployed on Tier 4 DataCenter.

Tier 4 data center certification typically serve enterprise corporations and provide the following:

- 99.995% uptime per year (Tier 4 uptime)

- 2N+1 fully redundant infrastructure (the main difference between tier 3 and tier 4 data centers)

-96 hour power outage protection

-26.3 minutes of annual downtime.

Datacenter Facility Images

Our back up node is deployed on Tier 3 Datacenters.

Tier 3 data centre specifications are utilized by larger businesses and feature:

- 99.982% uptime (Tier 3 uptime)
- No more than 1.6 hours of downtime per year
- N+1 fault tolerant providing at least 72-hour power outage protection

Deploying our servers in the Datacenter facility.

API NODES

Currently, we are running 4 API nodes (all load balanced) for EOS and Worbli Networks.
Entry points here:

https://api.eosmetal.io/v1/chain/get_info

https://worbliapi.eosmetal.io/v1/chain/get_info

About EOSMetal

EOSMetal is a standby producer on EOS / Worbli Networks which uses bare metal servers /hybrid technology. Our only policy is one of transparency, we are self-funded and are dedicated to maintaining top-class infrastructure for EOSIO ecosystem. Please consider us for voting if your values align with ours.

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