Creating an outside DigitalOcean Alpha Test Network

Nick_Lambert · March 2, 2018, 8:06am

Hey Will, this is referenced in the instructions:

Run several vaults
With the config files mentioned above placed in the same folder as the vault binary, you should now be able to start multiple instances of the binary, either in multiple terminals on a single machine, or single instances on multiple machines on the same LAN, or a combination of these.

Note: The first vault must be run with the --first flag (or -f for short) so it knows there aren’t any peers to connect to.

You should run at least min_section_size instances of the vault binary before trying to connect any clients, since that’s the minimum number required to safely store any data (including client accounts) on the network. This value is currently set to 8 by default, but can optionally be changed via the min_section_size dev option of the Routing config file (see above).