Algorand
Security and Reliability at Our Core
PureStake provides Algorand relay and participation infrastructure-as-a-service. Unlike traditional co-location providers, the PureStake platform is scaled and secured by treating infrastructure as code. PureStake leverages the APIs of these cloud providers to provision and maintain infrastructure in a fully automated fashion. We use software engineering techniques and best practices around testing, automation and deployment to provision and modify our Algorand infrastructure.
To house the growing blockchain databases, our infrastructure includes DDoS protection, firewalls, IDS, HA load balancers, running nodes, and storage backends. We manage change, incidents, alerts, security events, log events and other operational details using a mature and secure set of operational processes conforming to the ISO-27K standard.
Algorand Infrastructure Services
Relay Services
High levels of relay availability and performance are expected for the Algorand network to meet its performance goals. That’s why relay nodes are a critical part of the Algorand network, acting as a hub to connect participation nodes on the network.
The PureStake relay service locates relays at strategic network peering points around the world. If you are an Algorand participant or developer looking for secure and reliable relay services, please contact us.
Participation Node Services
Algorand participants interested in staking their Algo and supporting consensus are required to run a participation node on the Algorand network. PureStake offers highly-available, highly secure, fully managed Algorand participation nodes that are strategically placed to ensure the best possible performance.
Dedicated participation nodes start at $500/month. If you are interested in a managed Algorand participation node service, please contact us.
Custom Consulting Services
We offer dedicated or custom Algorand infrastructure solutions tailored to specific requirements. This includes custom node configurations, dedicated infrastructure and private network deployments. We can also assist with custom code or functionality for your Algorand-based project.
Custom solutions are deployed using our secure and reliable Algorand infrastructure automation platform and will feature the same security and reliability as our standard offerings.
Points of Presence Around the World
The Algorand network requires high-quality, low-latency connectivity for users connecting to the network. Our IaaS meets this requirement by having multiple regional points of presence around the world, proving in-region access to the network from the data center closest to the user. Our network-centric, multi-cloud approach provides the highest levels of redundancy and availability, protecting against failures with any single provider.
Algorand Infrastructure Service Levels
PureStake’s deployment architecture design delivers an extremely resilient, high-availability service. This is accomplished by distributing the nodes and services across multiple cloud service providers, geographic regions, and availability zones. All internet-facing endpoints are serviced by network load balancers that provide an extra layer of security, load distribution across multiple nodes, automatic failover, and maintenance without service interruption.
The SLA for our Algorand infrastructure services is 99.95% per month for each location. PureStake fully stands behind this SLA and will issue credits back to our customers if we fail to meet the SLA requirements.
| SERVICE | CAPABILITY |
| DDoS Protection and Security | DDoS monitoring and protection through multiple network security layers. Discrete VPCs, firewalls, hardened OS, automated patching, log analysis, IDS, multi-factor authentication and more. |
| Network Load Balancer | Redundant availability, load-balanced across AZs. |
| Multiple Availability Zones (AZs) | Nodes distributed across multiple AZs in separate data centers, forming a high-availability service. |
| High-Performance Compute | Multicore compute-optimized hosts with the ability to scale by adding more hosts behind the load balancer. |
| Fast SSD Storage | High performance I/O SSD block storage. |
| High-Speed Network Access | 10 Gbps |
| Service Monitoring | Full stack service monitoring, including many Algorand-specific monitoring checks for performance and security. |