= Looking for cheap vps I can run public monero node on =
VPS needs to accept crypto as payment and be able to hold unpruned blockchain size. Any suggestions? The one I have is charging $75/month for 250gb ssd. Feels kinda high
Oracle cloud free tier.
They give 200GB storage, 24GB RAM and 4 ARM cores
**for free forever Nobody else even comes close.
I use it myself, monerod runs great on ARM :)
Oracle cloud free tier.
Only issue with OCI is that they arbitrarily rug-pull the free accounts and also the signup process is super hard. Everything you said about them is valid but one caveat we should add is that if you rely on your node to be always there i.e. for a BTCpayserver implementation or a mining pool then OCI is a bad choice as they cannot be trusted.
wow thats really cool. Whats the catch? a free service like this is hard to come by.
Is the free tier a vps just like any other? Can i sign into it with ssh?
Thanks for this update though, this would be more comfortable as well.
I would be very glad to use Oracle cloud, looking forward for this !
VPSs are quite expensive. I spent a long time trying to justify one for myself, but an old pc or buying a cheap one will very quickly pay itself off.
I've had a decent experience with linode otherwise.
Ya $75 for 250gb felt high. Ive heard people pay $5 a month and I was looking for something similar
You can run your node locally if you have fast internet. Even if your ISP block ports you can run a VPN that supports port forwarding on your node PC. There are a number of VPNs that support this, accept monero and for 5$. I have used azire vpn.
I really wanted to do that but a couple people scared me off saying it could be dangerous to open ports on your home network and hackers can take over the node. Not sure how true this is and if there is someway I can harden the setup for piece of mind
id love to just make my monerd public on my miner but not sure how to go about it safely
quote from /u/endorxmr
Also: NEVER expose the UNrestricted RPC port (18081 by default) to the
internet, it's a security risk. If you do this, make sure you use the --restricted-rpc options and expose the restricted RPC port (18089 by default). Check out httpsmonerodocs.org for more info.
Running a public node == exposing the (restricted) rpc port so that wallets can connect to it.
metaDedi and Server Hunter are both great for looking for bargain VPS or dedicated servers. There's a lot of what you'd find on LowEndTalk without having to dig through the forum, although I'd recommend searching there for reviews and feedback before ordering anything.
Following on what waiiai said, NOCIX and Wholesaleinternet "take crypto" and have Xeon with 480GB SSD on clearance for US$35.00 a month with unlimited 1Bgit/s bandwidth. Their crypto acceptance isyou need to log in every month and pay each invoice, BTC only and via Bitpay.
Edit: Forgot to mention a non-US option: BAcloud in Lithuania have Xeon with 480 GB SSd for just under $50.00 with 50TB Bandwidth and accept crypto currency via Coingate. They do not accept XMR :(
NOCIX is pretty good I feel, II mean it doesnt have such major issues and also the pricing is good
nocix looks legit. Great pricing so far. 480gb should last a long while for an unpruned blockchain
checkout lowendbox.com
from there, virmach has some cheap*er solutions than 75$ a month.
200GB NVME for 28$ a month.
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