This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for deployment of the application and AMI support and compliance. The XRP Ledger is a decentralized cryptographic ledger powered by a network of peer-to-peer servers. This ledger supports an exchange for transacting other assets and decentralized payments. Why run your own server? There are lots of reasons you might want to run your own rippled server, but most of them can be summarized as: you can trust your own server, you have control over its workload, and you're not at the mercy of others to decide when and how you can access it. Of course, you must practice good network security to protect your server from malicious hackers. Additionally, running your own server gives you admin access, which allows you to run important admin-only and load-intensive commands. If you use a shared server, you have to worry about other users of the same server competing with you for the server's computing power. Many of the commands in the WebSocket API can put a lot of strain on the server, so rippled has the option to scale back its responses when it needs to. If you share a server with others, you may not always get the best results possible.