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Looking for Solana Validator Capable Server on East Coast
Hello,
I am looking to start a Solana validator node and need to meet the minimum hardware requirements below to do so:
CPU
- 2.8GHz base clock speed, or faster
- SHA extensions instruction support
- AMD Gen 3 or newer
- Intel Ice Lake or newer
- Higher clock speed is preferable over more cores
- AVX2 instruction support (to use official release binaries, self-compile otherwise)
- Support for AVX512f is helpful
- 16 cores / 32 threads, or more
RAM
-Error Correction Code (ECC) memory is suggested
-Motherboard with 512GB capacity suggested
- 512 GB or more
Disk
- PCIe Gen3 x4 NVME SSD, or better, on each of:
- Accounts: 500GB, or larger. High TBW (Total Bytes Written)
- Ledger: 1TB or larger. High TBW suggested
- Snapshots: 250GB or larger. High TBW suggested
- OS: (Optional) 500GB, or larger. SATA OK
The OS may be installed on the ledger disk, though testing has shown better performance with the ledger on its own disk
Accounts and ledger can be stored on the same disk, however due to high IOPS, this is not recommended
Accounts and ledger should not be stored on the same disk
Please message me with a quote/specs if you are able to provide this. Thanks!
Comments
I believe @PureVoltage can provide some servers for Solana.
I think the official hardware recommendations are pretty much outdated. It's hard to stay synced with the network with those specs. Transactions per second have went through the roof in the last week or so.
Thanks, I definitely plan on exceeding those minimum requirements substantially if possible, just wanted to put them there as reference.
@AlbaHost has configs with over 1 TB of RAM. Not entirely sure if they're fine with Solana validator nodes, but you can quickly ask
(as per their ToS, only crypto mining is forbidden) (Not in the US though 
)
affiliated link | non-affiliated.
Tagging a few more providers that can maybe help you out, but can't see public configs with over 512 GB RAM
@Hosteroid @VPSSLIM (Not in the US) @AlexBarakov (Not in the US) @alwyzon (Not in the US), @vsys_host (Seattle)
(not 100% sure all of them are fine with Solana nodes, just FYI)
Good luck
I would check with @qps.
Francisco
Ok. Kindly update us what you hear back.
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Hello there,
We provide crypto nodes (dedicated servers and VPS) for stakes and validators.
https://vsys.host/crypto-node
Recommended for Solana's fullnode:
DS-CRYPTO-Silver
$199 / month ($159 / month for yearly payment)
CPU: Dual Silver 4116 (24 cores)
RAM: 256GB DDR4
Drive: 2TB NVMe
Bandwidth: 1Gbps
IP: 1
IPMI: v.2
Free Setup: ✓
24×7 Support: ✓
Recommended for Solana RPC node:
DS-CRYPTO-Gold
$399 / month ($319 / month for yearly payment)
CPU: Dual Gold 6138 (40 cores)
RAM: 512GB DDR4
Drive: 2TB NVMe
Bandwidth: 1Gbps
IP: 1
IPMI: v.2
Free Setup: ✓
24×7 Support: ✓
We can do this for you I believe one of our team has reached out to your email request.
Thanks for the mention!
Our offer:
Dual AMD EPYC 7551
Cores: 64 (Threads: 128)
RAM: 512 GB DDR4 ECC
Disks: 1 x 4 TB NVMe
Traffic: Unmetered @ 1Gbit
Location: Ogden, Utah
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$239/mo
Yes, we have plenty of 7443P's which are not quite as good these days for it and some much better AMD 9347F's which work quite well.
For starters anything below 3.0 GHz single core base clock speed won't cut it. Intel won't work, only the very recent Epycs and Threadrippers. Expect the nvme's to get hammered all the time. You would get better performance with using a ramdisk based system, that is both ledger and accounts stored in system memory. This necessitates 2TB of RAM or more.
Thanks for the recommendation, but we don't allow crypto validators.
Thank you for the mention, yes we do allow solana validator nodes.
Hi, we can always make a custom configuration for you in either the Netherlands or Estonia. You can send me a PM or email for specific requirements, pricing etc.