Resiliency Checklist

In order to determine the necessary skills, hardware, and good practices needed for a Stake Pool Operators to be more resilient to various unforeseen events that may take down their pools from the network we have broken the checklist into the following sections: Stake Pool Operations Recommended Skills and Resources, Resilience Options, and Redundancy

Stake Pool Operator Skills

• Network Engineering

• System administration

• DevOps

Stake Pool Operation

• Time commitment

• Computer Skills

• Internet Service Provider

• Power Supply

• Hardware Package

• Software CLI

• Cloud Service Provider

• Web and cyber security

• Networking

• Firmware updating skills and application

Improved Resilience Options

• Privately Owned Modem

• Two Layer Networking Solution

• Security Monitoring System

• Main stake pool/hardware bare metal in a secure location

• Backup stake pool in VPS/cloud

• Failover Block Producer

• Failover Relay

• Backup ISP

• Designated Alternate SPO

  • Accessibility requirements

  • Security requirements (trust in the SPO to use keys/hardware/software)

  • Multiple owner stake pools

• Designated off-grid power duration (12-24 hrs)

Redundancy (data, software, infrastructure, and Hardware)

• Data and Software Backup

  • Backup keys and passwords

    • Written Down on paper

    • Electronic backups on USB/external hard drive

  • Backup Configuration Files

  • Backup Node Software (node and cli binaries)

  • Backup DB snapshot

  • Backup Tools/software

• Hardware

  • Spare node hardware (physical location with access)

  • Spare node hardware (cloud based)

  • Spare SSD/ hard drives

  • Cables

    • Ethernet Cables

    • SSD/HDD Adapters and Cables

  • Back Up Power Supplies for Nodes

• Internet

  • Main ISP

    • Fiber

    • DSL

    • Satellite

    • Cable/Coaxial

  • Backup ISP

    • Cellular/4G-5G wireless

    • Satellite/Starlink

    • Secondary cloud based ISP (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc)

    • Secondary location ( should be out of your region) & ISP with your own hardware

• Power supply

  • Failover

    • UPS

    • Solar panels + batteries

    • Generator