# Workshop: Host your own Zcash servers

**URL:** <https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/workshop-host-your-own-zcash-servers/49994>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [January 13, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/workshop-host-your-own-zcash-servers/49994 "2025-01-13T17:56:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![outgoing.doze](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/zcash/user_avatar/forum.zcashcommunity.com/outgoing.doze/32/37355_2.png) [@outgoing.doze](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/u/outgoing.doze)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/workshop-host-your-own-zcash-servers/49994/87 "2025-03-14T13:23:57Z")

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> [@emersonian](#):
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> Running your own infrastructure gives you the most privacy, and is crucial to further decentralizing our network.

“It is thus of critical importance to your privacy that you DO NOT use your own personal node to broadcast your transactions, because doing so reveals that the transaction was initiated from your (node’s) IP address.” – [Best Practices for Shielded Note Management and Networking Considerations](https://forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/best-practices-for-shielded-note-management-and-networking-considerations/48960)

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