It's a very moderately-priced dedicated cloud-based server:
Relatively cheap CPU: E-2275G 4GHz CPU (4 core/8 thread system) (this CPU retails for $334)
64GB RAM
Fanciest thing is it has 2 960GB samsung nvme drivers (and these aren't very fancy or expensive)
For testing and development, we use much more powerful servers that this, of course, to save time. Our development servers are in our own private data centers, since top-of-the-line equipment is costly to rent.
From what I recall (and I'm usually pretty good at recalling such things), within the first few years, Steemit was spending $75K per month on supporting their nodes (i.e. around $900K/year).
At this point, I think we could increase traffic to 12x our current traffic (which would far exceed anything Steemit ever did), and the cost for the servers wouldn't go up (unless some network traffic costs kicked in, but I don't think this is the case).
I mean yes but it was mostly because previously running a full node required 512 gb of ram and that increases the price exponentially. (plus steemit ran multiple nodes for redundancy)
The machine I'm running my witness on is more powerful than that!
Its a i7 6800k 3.6GHz (6core/12thread) which is a similar speed CPU.
128Gb RAM
2 x 1TB NVME drives in RAID 0
Are you saying that such a machine could handle ALL of Hive's current transactions!!?
Well done for making Hive API nodes so cheap to run!
This is fantastic for decentralisation.
The 2 x 1Tb super fast NVMe drives cost me $105 each (in Israel).
RAIDed they deliver amazing performance.
So for a couple of hundred bucks I've upgraded a 4 year old machine to be able to run ALL of Hive's traffic (if necessary).
Anyone with a bit of tech background can do this.
This means any one of the current 19 API nodes (with many more to come) could run all HIVE traffic in an emergency.
It's a very moderately-priced dedicated cloud-based server:
For testing and development, we use much more powerful servers that this, of course, to save time. Our development servers are in our own private data centers, since top-of-the-line equipment is costly to rent.
"Inexpensive"
Honestly it's expensive if you think of the price itself, but considering one of those could handle all of hive's traffic, it's pretty inexpensive :)
To give you some context steemit used to spend multiple thousand per month for their infrastructure, the setup above is probably 150$ or 200$ a month.
From what I recall (and I'm usually pretty good at recalling such things), within the first few years, Steemit was spending $75K per month on supporting their nodes (i.e. around $900K/year).
This is crazy. Surely the cost has to increase as we get back to old activity levels? Otherwise I'll setup my own node after the crypto bull run
At this point, I think we could increase traffic to 12x our current traffic (which would far exceed anything Steemit ever did), and the cost for the servers wouldn't go up (unless some network traffic costs kicked in, but I don't think this is the case).
thanks for that info. We need marketing. This makes Hive looks superior to all other chains I know.
Am I wrong or is this fantastic? That would allow handling smts in an easy and cheap way, right? :)
I mean yes but it was mostly because previously running a full node required 512 gb of ram and that increases the price exponentially. (plus steemit ran multiple nodes for redundancy)
Ok, but this is much cheaper for multiple nodes too, or I'm wrong?
you're not wrong :)
Wow!
The machine I'm running my witness on is more powerful than that!
Its a i7 6800k 3.6GHz (6core/12thread) which is a similar speed CPU.
128Gb RAM
2 x 1TB NVME drives in RAID 0
Are you saying that such a machine could handle ALL of Hive's current transactions!!?
yes
Well done for making Hive API nodes so cheap to run!
This is fantastic for decentralisation.
The 2 x 1Tb super fast NVMe drives cost me $105 each (in Israel).
RAIDed they deliver amazing performance.
So for a couple of hundred bucks I've upgraded a 4 year old machine to be able to run ALL of Hive's traffic (if necessary).
Anyone with a bit of tech background can do this.
This means any one of the current 19 API nodes (with many more to come) could run all HIVE traffic in an emergency.
nice