Port Numbers in Per order blockchain

Question

Hi,

One related question to per order blockchain is how do I get over the limitation of port numbers? I mean there a limited no. of port numbers available on 1 server and if I use one multichain per order, then every order/multichain will have to be run on different port. Assuming there can be a large number of orders at one point of time, we can soon run out of port numbers. What can be a solution for this?

Answer 1

It is an interesting theoretical question, but you will find that you run out of RAM before you run out of ports. I don't think you can currently scale to more than a double-digit number of MultiChain instances per server. For that many orders I think you'd be better finding a way to put all the information on one blockchain, using transaction metadata, but encrypt it.

Comments

Actually we got the idea of per order blockchain from your blog "Moving on from big blockchains" only. Earlier we were thinking one chain for all orders only.