Nerd-1 is the primary VPS running privacy frontends for North and South America.

Its located in Racknerd's Los Angeles DC2, and seems to use the colocation services of Multacom Corporation (according to the ASN).

## Origin

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.

Along with this migration, we renamed this node to Nerd-1 from the rather boring US Node

It was purchased on 11th August 2023 and was paid for an entire year (lowest we could do with the VPS we chose).

## Specs

- Racknerd 4.5GB KVM VPS
- 12 TB bandwidth (RX+TX)
- 3 vCPU of Xeon E5-2697 v2
- 4.5 GB RAM
- 100 GB SSD storage
- 1 IPv4 + 1 IPv6 (along with a /64 via Hurricane Electric for YouTube ratelimit bypass purposes)

## Purpose(s)

- Privacy Frontends
- Knot Authoritative DNS (Slave of Pizza1)