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Practical, sourced guides for choosing, sizing and running dedicated servers.
What a Hyperliquid non-validating node or validator needs, from the official node repository: vCPUs versus physical cores, 128 GB of RAM, Ubuntu 24.04, gossip ports, why the README says Tokyo, and how to prune about 100 GB of data a day.
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The minio/minio repository has been read-only since 25 April 2026. We compare the Silo fork, Garage, SeaweedFS, RustFS and Ceph RGW on license, redundancy and S3 coverage, size them on one storage server, price the cloud alternatives and migrate with rclone.
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What a Monad full node or validator needs, from the official node operations docs: bare metal, 16 cores and what the 4.5 GHz base-clock rule really means, the TrieDB drive layout, bandwidth, ports, setup steps and current prices.
12 min read
What a TRON FullNode, Lite FullNode or Super Representative node needs in 2026, from the official java-tron documentation: CPU, RAM, snapshot sizes, ports and JVM settings, and whether you need a node at all to send USDT on TRON.
8 min read
Unmetered ports, 95th percentile billing, per-terabyte allowances and cloud egress fees: how each model measures your traffic, what it costs at 50 TB, 200 TB and 1 PB a month, and the questions to ask before you sign.
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What OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b need to run: weight sizes from the model card, the memory each token of context takes, single-GPU serving with vLLM and Ollama, documented GPU support, and which 24, 48 and 96 GB cards fit which model.
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A crypto payment cannot be reversed, so choose the host before you send anything. Twelve checks, what a good answer looks like, the red flags to walk away from, and how PowerDedi answers each one.
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A VPS is a slice of a shared machine; a dedicated server is the whole machine. What that changes for performance, cost and bandwidth, how to measure CPU steal on your VPS, and when moving to bare metal pays off.
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What Solana validators and RPC nodes need in 2026, based on Anza’s published requirements: clock speed, memory for account indexes, separate NVMe drives, network capacity, tuning and concentration rules.
7 min read
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