IDEA: Dedicated VPS for Parity [Thoughts]
This article is by Edward S.Kevbrin, founder and CEO of Eggs Datacenter, a distributed data center for Edge Computing
Hi everybody, this is Ed, CEO at Eggs Datacenter. As you probably know, we work under new ways of working with data in our distributed data centre — trying to disrupt VPS market using p-2-p technologies.
The story of our project begins from…our crypto wallets. Cause they were always to be a tidbit for hackers, frauds and scammers.
As you are i am a little bit investor, saving some BTC for pension:) everyday with fellows we work with crypto and one day we lost a lot of coins from our local wallets because of frauds. Somehow our damn private keys were stolen or wallets were broken, we didn’t know. When we decided stop sitting and shaking from every rustle — we hired good Internet security officer for investigation. Eventually he found our laptops full of trojans and other sh*t. I remembered, those time he left us a goof advice:
“Never work with crypto from computer were you play or watch free movies”.
After that situation we made our mind to divide personal and working computers with wallets. And make our working computers remotely available.
Beforehand we explored a lot of options with virtual servers or collocations from amazon, digital ocean and many well known data centres. But we have several requirements making working space for wallets safe and convenient:
1. User-friendly interface and remote access, allowing to work inside virtual machine from any device without SSH or smth technicians,
2.Pre-configured state. A virtual machine with at least 120 GB space and pre-installed wallets like Parity or Mist (in case you want to start send transactions or receive money immediately).
3. Encryption and backup. There were no IaaS providers who were concern about my data when i stop working. They provide me with space in over-crowded servers were hackers can easily look at my VM through their are LAN and even don’t think about security.
As we didn’t find solution which fit us the best, we began to work under own solution. Something automated, flexible with low-latency and low-density, protected from viruses and spyware, physical theft or loss. That’s was the concept, which we began from.
