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This next ‘article’ is for those tech-heads and time-nerds who are interested in setting up their own time server. We’re keeping it short on the site because, to be honest, it would be about four times longer than our next longest piece. But to those with a hankering for those juicy details, this document’s for…

In our previous two articles, Public Time introduced our open architecture stratum one solution, and then explained the rationale for why we embarked on the project in the first place. In this third entry in the series, we get into the technical decisions we made, and the decision points we encountered along the way to the current…

As posted in Public Time’s previous blog article, our team has spent many hours and meetings over the past months identifying the advantages and disadvantages of our own open architecture. We’ve looked hard at utilizing tried and true NTP servers in tandem with our own established network of stratum two and, more recently, stratum one servers.…

Since Public Time started in the summer of 2017, all but one of the servers we have deployed have been stratum two servers according to the Network Time Protocol. To understand what that means more fully, let’s start by explaining stratums. A stratum, in layman’s terms, is the number of “wires” between your NTP server…

The previous blog article about server deployment mentioned our two physical (stratum one server) deployment projects: Project Ikenga and Project Tonatiuh. Much in the same way we dove into virtual servers, we figured it would be fairly easy to find an underserved country and find a company who would lease us some power, space, and network bandwidth.…