How is life in FULL NODE LAND? - The Lifeblood of STEEM APPS!
I am a geek, and I like numbers. Lately the numbers of accessible full nodes to STEEM blockchain has gone down, a lot.
Vessel now only finds 2 nodes, privex and the one that @pharesim runs. So I asked a STEEMIT employee plus some network geeks and some pioneers to explain to me what is required to run 24/7 full steem-nodes of different quality.
So what is required to run a full node in Hardfork 20.5 and above:
Well, I shall not be absolute here, so feel free to add your own requirements and the monthly costs in the comments below.
The aprox minimum requirement for a full node is currently on this version:
256 Gigs of RAM, you can do less when the chain is downloaded.
2 Terrabyte of fast SSDs for virtual memory
a small CPU
The MEDIUM requirement for a full node is currently on this version:
512 Gigs of RAM, can be reduced but a lot of people bragged they had this type of node and overrated the monthly costs by a large amount.
1 Terrabyte of fast SSDs for virtual memory to use for virtual memory and storage
a small CPU because STEEM is not very CPU heavy, and only single threaded.
The MAXIMUM* possible requirement for a kickass full node is:
1 Terrabyte of RAM - There are people working on RAM Daisy Chain, which should make it possible to run 100 Terrabytes of RAM, so keep your eyes out if you want to go maximum!
6 Terrabyte of SSDs for virtual memory and storage.
a small CPU
*there is no maximum!
Maybe there is a business in running some vip.fullnode.net services. I would gladly pay a fraction of the cost of running the steem-node I use for my services in order to stay online when the network is shaky and public nodes are attacked.
I think there is, and I hope to see more business driven services on the blockchain. We need it!
In the world of FULL NODES, we need Men of Integrity to step up their game. There is a lot of marketing money in using brand URLs, get sponsors to be seen by the most active users on STEEM while getting paid for private services as well.
Sincerely,
@fyrstikken / @fyrst-witness / @booster / @steemspeak / @steemads / @steemfiesta
A Human in love with STEEM who want to see more full nodes, public and private.
Yo fyrst, can you give a rough estimate of how much it takes to run a full node for a month?
Like your setup, how much does it cost you?
a 512 box cost about $900 now.
a 1024 box cost more than triple and up since it is kind of experimental. Maybe $3K or more.
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Damn... it's so hard to keep the integrity of the blockchain on the personal level when the barrier to participate is so high. Looks like Steem's gone the "scale up" approach rather than the "scale out" approach.
As a user (non-investor) there's really nothing i can do but trust that the seed nodes are running well.
Considered setting up a private one for my bots and to split with affiliates but that pricetag quickly got out of hand. Most run partials with just what they need enabled.
Why don't you get into this business?
An amazing Human!
Poets United are working toward such node we had it running before the fork now having troubles to set it up but will do eventually. Awesome Post I wondered why there are no much nodes like that answer is simple you get nothing in return directly ....
Also bei den Kosten bleibt mir das Grundprinzip der Sinnhaftigkeit verborgen.
Es werden Hochtechnologie Produktionsgüter verbaut, installiert und betrieben.
Wieviel Strom verbrauchen sie ?
Wie es scheint nicht viel, eher weniger, oder ?
Die 2000 Euro Hardware,
die ich mir zuhause hinstelle habe ich dann auch
2000 Euroeinheiten in Steemeuro ?
(bzw. dollar, yen , .. ?) Vergütungen in SbD ? Gewinnanteile in SbF ?
Aber wo das am Ende das Auszahlbare herkommt ?
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