FWIW, not that I’d consider myself a whale, (IMO that’s tens of thousands of nodes or more) I have variability and put quality service first.
Some examples:
- Different redundant storage foundations: ZFS and hardware RAID. (RAID 10, considered the best for performance and redundancy)
- Different models of hardware; mostly smaller machines which is more administrative overhead but less of an impact to the network if one’s taken down.
- Multiple internet connections from different ISPs that offer service to my area.
- Different OS stacks: Some machines run Debian directly, other larger machines run FreeBSD with Debian in VMs. (Pushing for more diversity)
In my opinion if Autonomi doesn’t pan out, humanity is absolutely cooked, so my priority is serving the network even over profiting from it, and I’ve made less profitable technical decisions in alignment with that belief. Maybe that’s why I’d be in a much better position if I had just put the infra capital into buying tokens instead of running nodes. (sorrowful lol)