What if Zcash never broke again because of a single lightwalletd server?

[outgoing.doze]

My current understanding of the situation is described in the following message:

RFP - Zcash Lightwalletd Infrastructure Development and Maintenance

The costs I am seeing here should be an order of magnitude less, at most. What I am seeing here is not making any sense. Wallets, how do you select a lightwallet node on startup? Do you ping each node and select the fastest one? If yes, great. If not, why not? Also, when you detect that the active lightwallet node is not responding, do you switch to the next available one? cc: @zancas @hanh @Honza We do not need to spend anything on High Availability architecture. Instead, we need a few motiv…

If it’s wrong, good. We still need to make it easy to have smart selection of lightwalled based on latency and quick smooth failover when one fails, don’t you think @shieldedmark ?