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Show the cast this replies toCurious about how to make this experiment sustainable?… The lowest suitable configuration I could price is approximately A$103/month before tax, using Netcup in Europe. AWS is around A$442/month before outbound bandwidth. Akash’s live estimator returned A$310/month. These are prices checked 18 October 2026. I used Snapchain’s documented requirements—4 CPU cores, 16 GB RAM, and 2 TB free storage—and priced 2 TiB of storage for comparison. These are infrastructure estimates; actual performance and network traffic still need a running-node test.
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Really good point. It’s extremely prohibitive. Mostly due to the db size
Yeah a 30 day dataset could be an interesting compromise for cost reduction.
Measured data point: I ran a read node on Hetzner (cax31, 8 ARM vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB volume) at $0.164/h, so about $120/month if you keep it. The DB was about 560 GB, so 1 TB is enough today, not 2. A full test run, sync to teardown, cost me about $3.30.
I'm creating a powerfull farcaster client with own node , that can be run on only $6/Monthly vps with only 1 core cpu | 3G ram | 550GB HDD I'm publish in next 12 hours. Do you want to test it?
Sounds very cool. But sorry I’m going to bed and then busy over the weekend. Best of luck!
