The existing throttling feature leaves much to be desired. It throttles the rate, but you can still use 10s of GBs if you get a lot of peers etc. Some people don't run nodes because they fear hitting data caps from their ISPs, VPN, or VPS providers.
What if we can have a setting that would provide a data allowance for seeding new nodes. E.g.,
--data-cap 1G day
would put the cap at 1 gb a day
--data-cap 10G month
would put the cap at 10 GB a month.
After the daemon hits that cap, it stops offering bootstrapping / seeding service, and just relays transactions and/or blocks.
+hacktoberfest
it might be too much for hacktoberfest.... it needs a database... ermagerd
stoffu
commented
5 years ago
The existing throttling feature leaves much to be desired. It throttles the rate, but you can still use 10s of GBs if you get a lot of peers etc. Some people don't run nodes because they fear hitting data caps from their ISPs, VPN, or VPS providers.
What if we can have a setting that would provide a data allowance for seeding new nodes. E.g.,
--data-cap 1G daywould put the cap at 1 gb a day
--data-cap 10G monthwould put the cap at 10 GB a month.
After the daemon hits that cap, it stops offering bootstrapping / seeding service, and just relays transactions and/or blocks.
+hacktoberfest
it might be too much for hacktoberfest.... it needs a database... ermagerd