Qortal Donations
CHECK THE OPTIONS ON THE CART PAGE FOR VARYING AMOUNTS AND FLAT DONATIONS. THE DEFAULT PACKAGE IS 25/MONTH + 100 FLAT. CHANGE THE PACKAGE ON THE CART PAGE IF YOU WOULD LIKE A DIFFERENT PACKAGE.
CHD supports Qortal Development extensively. This is a Qortal Development Donation Subscription, that goes directly toward assisting the Qortal project in one way or another. Primarily toward the hosted infrastructure that CHD runs for the project.
CHD Hosted Infrastructure Provided for Qortal
Bootstrap Cluster (REDUNDANT - 4 nodes with 4 cores and 8GB of RAM each, and custom automation.) - 4 bootstrap creation/management nodes that continually ensure that there are updated bootstraps available for download via Qortal. This is a fully automated service with scripts written by CHD that automatically create, validate, and verify the bootstraps for the Qortal blockchain, and distribute them directly to the Qrotal Core upon request. Bootstraps are created via the bootstrap creation API call, and the automation scripts run as a service on the cluster nodes, with 4 nodes continually attempting to create bootstraps on a schedule.
New Addition to Bootstrap Cluster - Bootstrap 'overlord' automation. - The 'overlord' ensures that the bootstrap 7z files on each of the 4 creation nodes is the same, synchronizing the files across the cluster if one of them doesn't get the file during original creation. Since the implementation of the bootstrap overlord service 'bs-overlord', not a single bit of additional manual intervention has been required on the bootstrap cluster. Making a fully automated, updated, and redundant node cluster for Qortal Bootstrap creation and distribution.
Hosted-Access Qortal Hub and Qortal Go (REDUNDANT - 3 web servers) - The Hosted-access Qortal Hub/Qortal Go servers on https://hub.qortal.link or https://go.qortal.link - These are multi-web-server redundant access points that provide fully hosted-access to the Qortal Network. Allowing users to create accounts and utilize Qortal without having to install anything on their systems. They are quite useful for new users or people who just want to create accounts quickly. With redundant hosting and round-robin DNS, there is zero downtime.
Public Access Qortal Node Cluster (REDUNDANT - 6 nodes with HA-Proxy load-balanced and validated synchronized-access-only connectivity for publicly accessible Qortal Nodes) - This cluster provides anyone with a fully redundant publicly accessible set of Qortal nodes. These nodes are also the default backend for the Qortal Go mobile app until Qortal has lite nodes fully functional. These nodes are configured in a very complex configuration, that took EXTENSIVE effort to build, but since the final touches have been put on the configuration, they have been running VERY SOLID for many months now. With the HA-Proxy configuration and setup they use, the connectivity to the nodes is verified first, and only allowed if the connection will be made to a SYNCHRONIZED node on the backend. This configuration also ensures that the access is fully functional if one or even multiple nodes goes down behind the proxy. Handling seamless failover for the user to where they most likely won't even notice it took place.
'Main Community Nodes' for Qortal Core codebase 'default nodes' - The 'default nodes' are nodes 1 through 7 (currently, more will be put up in the future as well) on qortal.org (node.qortal.org node2.qortal.org, etc...) - They are built by CHD to ensure that there are always HIGH QUALITY default nodes available, and are configured in the codebase to be utilized as the 'first nodes' a user connects to with a new installation and/or newly bootstrapped node. Think of them as the 'default peers' that tell you how to connect to the other peers in the distributed network. These are crucial high-uptime nodes that are required for any decentralized network.
Qortal 'DevNet' Nodes - The Qortal DevNet is the developer network that is utilized for testing features that cannot be tested on the mainnet, within the core Qortal Development Group. At the time of this publish the DevNet is being utilized to test the new low-level networking changes being done on the Qortal Core by Ice, and Siddi. The Qortal Devnet consists of 7 nodes in 5 different worldwide locations in order to be able to more accurately simulate what real-world conditions might look like on the network for more accurate testing of distributed functionality. The Qortal DevNet is also a VPN-connectable network to allow developers and test users to connect to it, as it is an 'isolated network' that cannot be connected to without explicit setting of statically assigned addresses in the settings of each node. CHD runs the DevNet nodes as well.
Many additional hosted solutions are provided by CHD, including the Qortal Wiki on https://wiki.qortal.org , the gateway nodes on https://qortal.link/crowetic and https://qortal.name/crowetic (you can put any name after the / to go to any published website or app on Qortal in 'view only mode'. such as https://qortal.link/APP/Q-Tube or https://qortal.name/APP/Q-Blog ). CHD also hosts https://search.crowetic.com that promotes Qortal, and Q-Search, and much more.
Total Costs for Hosted Hardware Alone (paid by CHD) = over 1100 dollars PER MONTH.
Any donations to this subscription, or the non-subscription donation options on https://crowetic.com - go toward this hosted infrastructure first, followed by any other development-related or hosted required initiatives by the Qortal Development Group.
Other CHD Contributions
Mac 'signing key' Developer program subscription (120/yr) - This is a payment made by CHD that costs 120/year and must be paid to Apple if Qortal wishes to have a 'signed' apple app. Having a 'signed' app means that users do not have to go through and make security configuration on their machines in order to run Qortal software.This fee is paid by CHD.