>Even BitGo, a commercial payment company, has trouble maintaining datacenter servers that can keep up with the io demands of running an Ethereum node.
That company lost 120k of Bitfinex's BTC to a hack, the exact scenario it was apparently created to prevent. Their struggles reflect their competence level: especially the part about _directly_ using network storage, apparently genuinely not realizing that the main point of local instance storage is to function as a last cache level exactly for situations like these.
>Even BitGo, a commercial payment company, has trouble maintaining datacenter servers that can keep up with the io demands of running an Ethereum node.
That company lost 120k of Bitfinex's BTC to a hack, the exact scenario it was apparently created to prevent. Their struggles reflect their competence level: especially the part about _directly_ using network storage, apparently genuinely not realizing that the main point of local instance storage is to function as a last cache level exactly for situations like these.