is bitcoind reliable when depending on it for web services?

What I mean by the title is, say If I create a service with bitcoind being used to create and store large numbers of accounts and address, is it likely to take the strain? Can I setup multiple instances of bitcoind to access information about the network or would I need to one large instance of a bitcoin daemon to handle everything?

If not is there an alternative to be used that can keep up with an expanding web service?

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Peter Fox

Posted 2013-05-13T20:36:03.610

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Answers

I think bitcoind is perfectly suitable for it, if you can securely access it via RPC.

You can easily create a separate bitcoind instance when you experience that only one instance cannot handle the load, but keep in mind that a bitcoind instance can only send coins it has the private key from, so you will have to separate all your queries into two parts, one for every instance.

Steven Roose

Posted 2013-05-13T20:36:03.610

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