For those who are interested, here is my 9 step way to install a full node.
I tried to make it as universal as possible.

http://charlieshrem.com/node/

Thanks,

Charlie

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On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Jameson Lopp <jameson.lopp@gmail.com> wrote:

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> The charts are generated on-demand by Graphite, which is a Django app.
>
> I will note that one reason I chose StatsD is because it sends the stats
> via UDP rather than TCP, which is a non-blocking operation. I didn't want
> the sending of stats to affect the node's performance.
>
> - - Jameson
>
> On 05/07/2014 04:18 PM, Wladimir wrote:
> > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Jameson Lopp <jameson.lopp@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> >> I agree that it would be awesome to offer these types of stats with the
> installer; unfortunately the route I've taken has dependencies on several
> other other pieces of software to do all the heavy lifting of stats
> aggregation and chart rendering. I'm assuming that you would not want to
> build any of that processing into Bitcoin Core itself; would you be opposed
> to packaging other software along with the installer?
> >
> > Depends on just how much stuff it is. The idea is primarily to have an
> > installer for running a (wallet-less) node as an OS background
> > service.
> >
> > Having some statistics available would be worth some extra download
> > size, otherwise it would be pretty much invisible.
> >
> > We'd already decided that we would need something like Python for the
> > stats service. Implementing things like web services in C++ is just
> > not realistic given the time constraints and the great already-written
> > code that is out there. As an optional tool it should be external, not
> > part of bitcoind itself.
> >
> > I suppose the chart rendering happens client-side? In that case the
> > web service just has to collect and provide the data, and serve static
> > html/js files.
> >
> > Wladimir
> >
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