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Running a node has no specialized hardware requirements. People were successful at running a node on Raspberry Pis, for instance.
Running a node has no specialized hardware requirements. People were successful at running a node on Raspberry Pis, for instance.
Minimum requirements are moving targets due to the nature of the project and some factors should be considered:
Minimum requirements are moving targets due to the nature of the project and some factors should be considered:
- compiling node sources locally requires processing and storage resources
- compiling node sources locally requires computing and storage resources
- replicating the chainstate requires significant memory allocation (1,3+ GB)
- as the chain grows, the on-disk state will grow over time
- chainstate size grows over time, increasing the memory requirements
With these considerations in mind, we suggest hardware based on a general-purpose specification provided by GCP, the [E2 machine standard 2](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types#general_purpose):
With these considerations in mind, we suggest hardware based on a general-purpose specification, similarly to [GCP E2 machine standard 2](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-types#general_purpose) or [AWS EC2 t3.large standard](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/):
Alexander Graebe
4 years ago
Alexander Graebe