Requirements

Here are the base requirements for running a Masternode Candidate.

Hardware Recommendation

• Directly facing internet

• 16 cores CPU

• 32GB of RAM

• SSD storage

We recommend using popular cloud providers as there reliability and uptime are close to 100%. These servers would be a good starting point:

• DigitalOcean: CPU optimized droplet 32GB/16CPU

• Amazon EC2: C5 instance

• Google Cloud Engine: n1-highcpu-16

Setting up a Masternode Candidate on a weaker machine might result in poor performances, significantly impacting owner's rewards and the chain performance.

Maintenance

All IT systems require maintenance.

It is of the owner's responsibility to ensure regular maintenance and that the node has enough:

• Disk space to store the new blockchain data

• Processing power to keep the chain operating at optimal speed

• Monitoring to be able to react quickly in case of a problem occurring

• Security measures like firewalling, OS security patching, SSH via keypairs, etc.

This is a non exhaustive list.