Public VSP servers are a key part of the Decred infrastructure as they make Proof-of-Stake far more accessible for the average user. It is therefore desirable to increase the number of public VSPs listed in Decrediton and on decred.org in order to promote decentralization and improve the stability of the Decred network.
- Familiarity with system administration work on Linux.
- Ability to compile from source, setting up and maintaining
dcrdanddcrwallet. - Willingness to stay in touch with the Decred community for important news and updates. A private channel on Matrix exists for this purpose.
- Availability to update VSP binaries when new releases are produced.
- Operators should ideally be pairs of individuals or larger groups, so that the unavailability of a single person does not lead to extended outages in their absence.
- Ability to effectively communicate in English.
- At least one machine dedicated to hosting the web front end, handling web connections from VSP users.
- At least three dedicated machines hosting voting wallets and a local instance of dcrd.
- The machines used to host the voting wallets must be spread across 3 or more physically separate locations.
- The web frontend must have an IP that is distinct from those of the voting wallets, and is ideally located in another physical location.
- The VSP must be run on testnet for 1 week to confirm it is working properly. Uptime and number of votes made versus missed will be checked.
- The VSP must be run on mainnet in test mode (no public access) until a VSP operator demonstrates they have successfully voted 1 ticket of their own using the VSP.
- The operator must have an adequate monitoring solution in place, ideally alerting on server downtime and application error logging.
For further support you can contact the Decred community.