I’ve just deployed some new nodes in 3 continents. Bought VPSes from here:
$10/year is dirty cheap for 20GB SDD and 1GB RAM.
Let’s turn on the light all around the world!
Black Friday is coming and good chance to deploy some cheap nodes
16.50/Year
- 2 vCPU Cores
- 1 GB Dedicated RAM
- 50 GB RAID10 SSD Cached Disk
- 3 TB/Mo Bandwidth at 1 Gb/s
- 1x IPv4 and 3x IPv6
I saw a cheaper deal, to start your own grin node
XMAS CS VPS 23 - 1
Lifetime Recurring Offer
$9.50/Year
1 vCPU Core
512 MB Dedicated RAM
30 GB RAID10 SSD Cached Disk
3 TB/Mo Bandwidth at 1 Gb/s
1x IPv4 and 3x IPv6
Los Angeles, US
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Carefully not to go to minimal. I am not sure if a node with 512 MB RAM would boost the network or slow it down? Better to get a new Raspberry Pi 5 with M2 SSD. Low power, very fast and reasonably affordable. Can be used both as Grin node and as Linux or Windows PC.
Raspberry Pi 4 also works, but when available the Pi 5 would be the beter buy IMO and more future proof.
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I asked @Yeastplume
“I don’t have anything specific, but I personally probably wouldn’t go lower than 2GB ram on the machine. However, with a decent SSD swap set up it might be more feasible to use less.”
512 MB may work, but at least 1 GB of free memory I would recommend as a minimum, based on experience. You can add more swap space via the hard disk, so 30 GB might be barely enough if you install a light operating system like Debian and add swap space.
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For another project I’m working on we’ve looked at Dappnode as a way to deploy our node software… it’s an OS like Umbrel for hosting nodes primarily ETH, but there are tons of other blockchain nodes that are options, it’s completely open source and permissionless so anyone can upload any package there, but if a GitHub maintainer on the project signs off and some other things then it can get elevated as curated…
I’ll look to launch a node on my local setup btw as well…
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Other cheap vps deals that maybe helpful to someone
https://www.racknerd.com/NewYear/
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