<!-- title: Nerd-1 description: published: true date: 2024-06-23T15:26:57.742Z tags: editor: ckeditor dateCreated: 2024-06-23T14:55:09.342Z --> <p>Nerd-1 is the primary VPS running privacy frontends for North and South America.</p> <p>Its located in Racknerd's Los Angeles DC2, and seems to use the colocation services of Multacom Corporation (according to the ASN).</p> <h2>Origin</h2> <p>This server was bought from Racknerd (hence the name Nerd-1), after we ran out of credits on Digital Ocean where it was initially setup.</p> <p>Along with this migration, we renamed this node to Nerd-1 from the rather boring US Node</p> <p>It was purchased on 11th August 2023 and was paid for an entire year (lowest we could do with the VPS we chose).</p> <h2>Specs</h2> <figure class="image image_resized" style="width:36.04%;"><img src="/nerd-1 neofetch.png"></figure> <ul> <li>Racknerd 4.5GB KVM VPS</li> <li>12 TB bandwidth (RX+TX)</li> <li>3 vCPU of Xeon E5-2697 v2</li> <li>4.5 GB RAM</li> <li>100 GB SSD storage</li> <li>1 IPv4 + 1 IPv6 (along with a /64 via Hurricane Electric for YouTube ratelimit bypass purposes)</li> </ul> <h2>Purpose(s)</h2> <ul> <li>Privacy Frontends</li> <li>Knot Authoritative DNS (Slave of <a href="https://wiki.projectsegfau.lt/Pizza-1">Pizza1</a>)</li> </ul>