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The hardware requirements wrt memory to run a validator node are just insane https://docs.solana.com/running-validator/validator-reqs https://docs.solana.com/ru
by comodore_ 5y ago
The hardware requirements wrt memory to run a validator node are just insane https://docs.solana.com/running-validator/validator-reqs https://docs.solana.com/running-validator/validator-reqs
- lucasyvas 5y agoHoly, you weren't kidding. I had to read it three times to make sure my brain got it right.
- hanniabu 5y agoExactly why it'll never be decentralized (centralized team and private investments aside)
- jtsiskin 5y ago~$11,000 a year on GCP according to https://gcpinstances.info/?cost_duration=annually https://gcpinstances.info/?cost_duration=annually, for just the instance, if you commit up front to a full year. Then add on storage and ingress/egress traffic. And this is without the GPU requirement yet.
- anonymoushn 5y agoOr like 1/10 of that at Hetzner
- asdf3331 5y agoRemember when people claimed that the bitcoin block size couldn't be increased because we would sacrifice decentralization? Well look where we are now...
- wmf 5y agoIt would be interesting to calculate $/TPS instead of using sticker shock as a metric.
- fuzzybear3965 5y agoYeah, it's true. The claim/theory/working hypothesis is that technological scaling will reduce the cost of a node over subsequent decades so that running a node becomes more affordable, increasing the decentralization of the network.