Hi,
Not sure how related this is to donors section but here we go.
I used a tutorial by laowai80 at bitcointalk (recommended at nxtalk.org while this forum was down) to set up a node.
Went for the recommended hallmark node with Debian 7 x64, 2GB RAM and 2 CPUs at DigitalOcean. I intend to sponsor it for the whole year 2014.
It would be nice to make other nxters aware of "create-a-node movement" to withstand future attacks. Maybe a new section on this forum about node creation an maintenance would be helpful?
On the technical side this new node barely uses 3% of CPU. Is this expected? Can I run some profiling for the node?