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Practical, sourced guides for choosing, sizing and running dedicated servers.
What a TON full node, liteserver, archive node or validator needs in 2026, from the official docs and MyTonCtrl: CPU, RAM, NVMe and IOPS, current dump sizes, bandwidth, ports, the GRAM stake, and which servers fit.
12 min read
What an Aptos validator, validator fullnode or public fullnode needs in 2026, from the official docs: the March 2026 hardware spec, disk sizing and pruning windows, ports, fast sync and backups, and which servers meet it.
12 min read
What an AvalancheGo node needs in 2026, from Avalanche’s official documentation: validator tiers by stake, disk growth and resyncs after the Helicon upgrade, C-Chain archive sizes, L1 validators after ACP-77, staking rules, ports and matching servers.
12 min read
What a Polygon PoS full node, validator pair or archive node needs in 2026, from Polygon’s docs: CPU, RAM, disk per the docs and per current snapshots, the end of Erigon, Heimdall-v2 and Bor setup, ports, and the servers that fit.
12 min read
What a Sui full node or validator needs in 2026, from Sui’s official documentation: CPU cores, RAM, NVMe sizing by pruning profile, current formal snapshot size, ports, the move from JSON-RPC to gRPC, and which servers fit each role.
11 min read
What a BSC fast, full, archive or validator node needs in 2026, from BNB Chain’s documentation and its October 2026 snapshots: CPU, RAM, disk growth, why Reth-BSC replaced Erigon for archive nodes, ports, and the servers that fit.
12 min read
What an Arbitrum One full or archive node needs in 2026, from Offchain Labs’ Nitro documentation: RAM, CPU, NVMe sizing, HashDB versus PathDB, current snapshot sizes, the Ethereum RPC and beacon requirement, ports and memory tuning.
7 min read
What it takes to run a Base node in 2026, from Base’s own documentation: CPU, RAM, NVMe sizing with Base’s storage formula, full and archive snapshot sizes, the Reth-only client stack, the Ethereum L1 endpoints and the ports to open.
7 min read
Disk, memory, CPU and bandwidth for a Bitcoin full node in 2026: chain size and growth, pruned versus archival nodes, Electrum server indexes, faster syncs with AssumeUTXO, and the configurations that fit.
4 min read
What an Ethereum full node, archive node or validator needs in 2026, based on EIP-7870 and the client documentation: CPU and single-thread speed, memory, NVMe size per client, history expiry, archive modes and bandwidth.
6 min read
Viewers = usable capacity ÷ bitrate. Viewer counts from 4K to audio-only on a 10 Gbps port, monthly traffic and CDN prices, x264 presets versus NVENC, Owncast, MediaMTX, SRS and nginx-rtmp, HLS and LL-HLS, and an origin-and-edges design.
10 min read
Hardware, ports and configuration for a Monero node in 2026, from the official docs: full, pruned or public remote node, restricted RPC, Tor and I2P, bandwidth caps, a systemd unit, and which dedicated server fits.
12 min read
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