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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Bitcoin Nodes
by
ScripterRon
on 15/10/2014, 19:56:20 UTC

yeah, but hopefully bandwidth can start scaling faster with Fiber internet. That is one of the biggest reaosns people don't run full nodes is because it uses alot of upload bandwidth.

I don't think people would mind running nodes if bandwidth wasn't such an issue.

Running a node on a VPS is okay, that's what I do now, but it's not organic.
I run a Debian VPS with 2 processors, 2GB RAM, 40GB SSD, 4TB data transfer.  This costs $20/month.  Bandwidth hasn't been a problem but the 40GB SSD will become a problem as the blockchain continues to increase in size.

As far as setting up the node, that is pretty simple if you understand Unix/Linux commands.  The hardest part was setting up the firewall rules for IPv4 and IPv6 Smiley