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What kind of servers will you use for ETH2.0 validator node?
PhantomPain
Member
The validator deposit for ETH2.0 has begun since a few days ago
Due to the potential earning will not be too much, it is essential to manage the cost
Which kind of servers would you like to use for running a validator node?
Servers for Validator Node
- Kind of Servers29 votes
- Dedicated server37.93%
- Cloud Services (AWS, GCE etc..)  6.90%
- VPS  3.45%
- Raspberry Pi or similar device31.03%
- PC  0.00%
- I don't want to host any validator node by myself20.69%
Comments
FreeBSD 12.2
If the potential earning is not much why bother? There's plenty other cryptocurrencies that are more commonly used - and so, are less of a waste of electric vs this new shitcoin.
Hmmm.. the potential return for each node is approximately 1.5 ETH to 6.9 ETH each year
It's not too much but it worth doing it
And that is not a new shitcoin. It's the ethereum
New shitcoin?
Well, if you're a Bitcoin originalist then all of these are just new shitcoins not even worth 4 digits per coin I mean can you even imagine?
The cost of running a single validator node is quite high due to the size of the eth block chain. Assuming you don't plan on loosing your deposit you will want to do it on at-least a VPS server.
Doing it at-home on a pi/your pc sounds like a great way to loose your deposit.
Goodluck not being terminated within the first 24 hours.
Why would you get terminated?
Francisco
CPU abuse ?
Buy from a host that gives dedicated CPU.
Like yours truly.
Francisco
Grab a Slice.
sorry, i dont do mining, im more into ratting.> @Francisco said:
like mine ?
on another note, how you make sure you purchased a dedicated CPU, not false advertising?
Just quickly ran iostat on my geth node (full node, fully synced). CPU doesn't seem to be the issue.
It is recommended but not required to host a full node by yourself
You can use some free api service like infura and run the validator node separately
You can use some free api service like infura and run the validator node separately
Infura is not good for that kind of usage. API request limit for example.
How many requests does the validator node need?
Infura offers 100k request per day for free but I don't know whether it is enough
I don't think anyone can answer that honestly until ETH2.0 gets up to full steam. I would not expect it to be enough however. And at some point, with enough validation requests - it won't be.
Lets not forget that you are gambling ~$16k here on this free service with tight rate limits... for at most 10% (realistically 2-3% after costs).
higher return on an index fund lol
In this situation it is more like earning extra 10% fund share per year.
Could you please show us the server specs which you used for the full node?
Literally just a Kimsufi KS-9 except getting rid of the software RAID for space.The default settings for a full node currently requires 337GB of space. Can't run a bench on it right now because it's literally running obviously but the specs are
Intel Xeon W3520
4c/8t
2.66GHz
16GB DDR3 ECC 1333 MHz
SoftRaid
2x240Go SSD
100 Mbps
Works well enough for trading bots, much much faster and way fewer errors than Infura (because Infura, Chainstack, Quiknode, etc all have settings to prevent certain behavior like allowing you to get into a gas price auction to beat someone trying to front-run you) Even with 100 peers the bandwidth isn't bad but the disk write gets intense every time a new block is mined.