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Hardware recommendations

Principal Representative Nodes

The following are minimum recommended specifications for nodes with more than 0.1% of the online voting weight (Principal Representatives):

  • 16GB RAM
  • Quad-Core or higher CPU
  • 500 Mbps bandwidth (8TB or more of available monthly bandwidth)
  • SSD-based hard drive with 400GB+ of free space

Non-voting and Representative Nodes

The following are minimum recommended specifications for non-voting nodes and Representative nodes with less than 0.1% of the online voting weight (regular Representatives):

  • 8GB RAM
  • Quad-Core CPU
  • 250 Mbps bandwidth (4TB or more of available monthly bandwidth)
  • SSD-based hard drive with 400GB+ of free space

These lower specifications are also valid for any type of node run on the Beta network and Test network.

Varied resource usage

Various factors affect resource usage including how often RPC calls are made, other applications running on the machine, etc. These recommendations should be evaluated along with other considerations.

Work Generation guide

For nodes being used with services requiring regular or high volume sending and receiving of transactions, special considerations must be made for handling Proof-of-Work generation activities. Find details on configuring a GPU, external work services and more for the perfect setup in the Work Generation guide.