Quote from: OmegaStarScream on December 20, 2016, 01:14:10 PM

Quote from: mocacinno on December 20, 2016, 08:34:20 AM

I used to run one on a container on my dedicated machine. I stopped because running an electrum server was actually rather resource intensive, and i needed those resources for other things.

IIRC, you needed the full blockchain sync'ed and indexed (txindex=1), you also needed to download (or generate) a leveldb db for electrum. The total size of the bitcoind + electrum db was about ~150 Gb IIRC.
I ran it on a container, first i allocated 4 Gb RAM and 2 Vcpu's, but i upgraded the container to 8Gb pretty soon, and the performance still wasn't that great.
I'm pretty sure nowadays, you'll need at least 16, preferable 32 Gb of RAM, an SSD and 4 vCPU's to run everything smoothly. This wouldn't be a real problem, but you get no tips and no recognition to run an electrum server (at least, i didn't get a single thank you, nor a single tip)

For how long you was running the servers ? I sometimes check the addresses that I see in the messages on the console tab and I found that some people sent funds there , I know It's nothing much but well...
and approximately , how much you think It would cost me ? I'm not going to run it from my home or anything , I will be buying them online (probably buying monthly).

I've ran a server for a couple of months.
The cost, rather hard to say since VPS prices differ so much... You'll need an 8Gb VPS with 200 Gb SSD and at least 2 vCPU's. I guess it won't come that cheap.

Quote from: zebedee on December 21, 2016, 08:45:33 PM

Try ElectrumX by me, it's way more lightweight:

https://github.com/kyuupichan/electrumx

Seems cool... I'm going to check it out next time i have some spare server resources