Our overall server footprint will compose of three state-of-the-art servers; two will operate our staking platform and the third will participate in consensus over any automated disaster recovery plan execution as so-called “witness”. The third server is present to mitigate risks associated with automated disaster recovery called “split brain”. In essence, it is meant to prevent undesired activation of the disaster recovery plan in case of a network connectivity problems.

Infrastructure Network Topology

Each of our servers will be placed in a different collocation datacenter, one of which will be located in Poland. This infrastructure topology will help us protect our Stake Pool against disasters, both natural and man-made as well as possible government scrutiny.

All our servers will be secured as per relevant Center for Internet Security baselines, with relevant exceptions registered in the exception register as per our IT Governance guidelines.

Each datacenter site will be connected to two different Internet eXchange Points (IXP) and to rest of the Internet using different IP transit providers. This network topology will provide high level of resilience against Distributed Denial of Service attacks which are common in Blockchain peer-to-peer networks.

In addition to these slot-leader servers, we will also operate a separate layer of relay nodes connected to different service providers networks to further strengthen our resilience against DDoS attacks.