# Requirements

### Hardware Recommendation <a href="#hardware" id="hardware"></a>

* 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 <a href="#maintenance" id="maintenance"></a>

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.


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