What it's like to operate a full node. A short 1 year report.

I thought this might help someone who's thinking about setting up a full node. I use a server with a 1 Gb symmetrical connection. The number of nodes is not limited. Let's start with the node count. As you can see it varies roughly between 100 and 200 nodes. Node Count The download speed usage is very low. Download Upload speed is what a full node really consumes: Upload Mempool size. You can see that mempool size correlates with the bandwidth used. https://i.redd.it/mfw81jfgz3g21.png ​ ​ And here from which countries the nodes are connecting. I get most connections from China and USA.: node countries ​ The processor load can be neglected. What really needed performance was the initial download of the blockchain. But I don't think that's as resource consuming anymore. I hope this information will help you. And if you have idle upload capacity then just set a full node and support the network! EDIT: I added the Mempool size. submitted by /u/ban_shitnodes [link] [comments]