Diary of a NodeRunner

Monday 11th / Elrond announced Battle of Nodes , challenge for nerds haha . Im in ! REKT in ICOs , needs some funds to DCA . Easy 50 USD maybe even 100 if I run 2 nodes , there is Windows version , must be piece of cake. Go ERD!!!

Tuesday 12th / Found best place on earth ever. Google Cloud , 300USD for 1 year to run virtual server !! Wooow!! Need more nodes , 4 is ok .

Wednesday 13th / Installing Elrond node on windows is super easy , follow instruction and goo !! Adding 2 nodes , 6 total , Im richhhhh

Thursday 14th / checked cost table , wtf ??? Google Cloud charges 60 USD for windows license !!! whyyyyyy God !! what the hell is Ubuntu ??? im too old to learn it , im done , hate u all , life sux …

Friday 15th / hmm Ubuntu seems pretty nice , you google command and copy/paste it hehe , no mercy. Moving 6 nodes to Ubuntu , Elrond is best

Saturday 16th / damn it , 300 USD credit running out too fast , need new trick . installed 3 nodes on 1 VPS to save on CPU/RAM/HDD , Im genius — cloned 1st instance , just replaced keys

Sunday 17th / how the hell people are using Windows ?? Ubuntu is my new best toy , gonna name my next child after it . Nodes eating credits like pigs , especially traffic cost is insane . Google , stahp , givemesometime

Monday 18th / my wife wants some nodes for fun … jeez , mad world cant believe , made new account on Google Cloud for her , moved some of my nodes to her account to save my credit lalalala

Tuesday 19th / Elrond added autoupdate feature , wowowowow , opening Google Cloud accounts for my 80y uncle and aunt , they love blockchain but they need to learn Ubuntu and how to backup keys. They are lucky to have expert like me.

Wednesday 20th / nice guys in chat , too nerdy but it ok , nodes running fine , autoupdating , autoupgrading . relaxxxxx. Sudo is my new slogan

Thursday 21th / Sever promised payday soon , checked lambos in local salon , looks like I needed 600 nodes for it awwwww

Friday 22 th / Payday !!! im a whale

Saturday 23 th / no im not , mainnet soon , more nodes ….??

Sunday 24th / my wife says she found great place to rent VPS , contabo , cheap and reliable

to be continueeeed …..

Gear used :

Goggle Cloud 300 usd credit — enough for 6 nodes for 1 month , US region is cheaper

Instances : 2cpu/4gb : 4 cpu/8gb — 2 nodes 8 cpu/20 nodes — 4 nodes

OS : Ubuntu 18.04

Tools : Bitwise SSH

VPS : Contabo — when your Google Cloud credit runs out …

Documentation : https://docs.elrond.com/