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Glossary
- KYC
- Know Your Customer — identity checks (ID, phone, address). NoctisNode performs none.
- VPS
- Virtual Private Server — a virtual machine with its own OS and full root access.
- Bare-metal
- A physical dedicated server with no hypervisor and no shared resources.
- Full root
- Administrative access to your server — install anything, control everything.
- NVMe
- Non-Volatile Memory Express — fast solid-state storage.
- DDR5 ECC
- Error-correcting server RAM.
- rDNS
- Reverse DNS — maps an IP back to a hostname you control.
- Warrant canary
- A periodically signed statement that no secret orders have been received.
- Offshore
- Hosted in a jurisdiction aligned with your threat model.
- On-chain
- A cryptocurrency transaction recorded directly on the blockchain.