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Technical Excellence

Our servers are distributed to 4 locations in Austria, Germany, Finland and Ethiopia. Well equipped (8 Core, 32 GB RAM), properly hardened, monitored, backed up and maintained. Set-up for high availability and sized to meet future demands.
Architecture Diagram Hybrid Cloud

High Availability

To achieve high availability we operate 4 relays, 1 Block Producer and an additional Stand-by Block Producer to allow a switchover with minimal latency. High available network disks (triple-stored) allow to auto-recover the machines in case of hardware failure.

Network Security

Only the Relay Node Port is exposed to the public. All other traffic (SSH, Monitoring) is tunneled through VPN. Node/Relay communication through internal network.

Maintenance Access

2-FA Authentication to Management Console. SSH hardened (Root Login Disabled, Key based authentication with hardware wallet.

OS Level Hardening

Root Disabled, No Pasword Login, Fail2Ban, Auto Security Updates, Service User for Cardano Service, Firewall configuration as described in Network Security

Futureproof Sizing

32/24 (Cloud/Private) GB RAM, 8 (Cloud/Private) Cores, High-available Network Disk (each block stored 3x), 160GB HDD, Inplace Upgrade possibility with minimal downtime through Standby approach.

Backup

Daily Snapshots and major version snapshots. Recovery time below 10 minutes

Monitoring & Alerting

Email and SMS Alerts based on TIP check. If the database is not synced for more then 5 minutes.

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