Quote from: Hoshimaru on September 09, 2014, 07:50:17 PM

Good evening

I've prepared a VM with Ubuntu Server 14.04/1GB RAM/8GB VDI and had some fun setting it up to host ABE. It's very slow, but I that's due to the hardware it runs on (old 6 year old laptop with a 1.6ghz athlon neox2 and 4GB ram. Anyway, since my tests are successful, I was thinking to host it somewhere, but I have no clue about the hardware requirements needed. When I look at VPS solutions like Digital Ocean's 5$ and 10$ packages, they look similar to my VM, memory-wise, but I don't know about the other virtualized hardware.

I'd like to avoid getting Error 500's or time-outs as the daemon will be running in the background to keep it updating at any time.
On my VM, the wallet daemon takes up to 15% of the cpu load, python around 35% and postgresql is sometime at 80% while loading blocks in the database (in huge chunks) during the initial loading.

When no blocks are added as the come, it's around 10% for postgresql and python, daemon runs at <2% load.
If I query the block explorer for an address, it pyhon gets spikes as high as 45%, postgresql 50% and apache2 45%...

So, I'm wondering what the minimum hardware requirements (or VPS equivalent) are to host this kind of service.
Also, is there a way to filter out the staking transactions?

I also think there's a problem. When looking at transaction details, it show always the same kind of addresses for any sender and receiver, for any transaction... for the first one to the last one in the whole blockchain. But I can query a specific transaction and it shows all the transactions that I see in my wallet as well. Did I miss something during the setup. Is there an (d)e(n)coding error? The address receiving those 5000 coins should be the one in my sig. M.....eXe iso 6KZ...PW9

Thanks for insights

Abe will run ok on Digital Ocean's 1GB RAM VPS ($10/month). It is possible to get it to work ok also on 512MB RAM if you set up swap memory, pick the right distro and disable some unnecessary things to conserve memory use. Don't worry about CPU usage because even if Abe is written in Python which is a shit slow performing language that is not where problem or bottleneck with Abe is, it will run good on some old Pentium 3 Tongue

If you want smaller footprint blockexplorer (but with some limited feature) check out RPC Ace https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=686177.0