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Miniumum Infrastructure ​

It is the Block Producer’s prerogative whether to run their servers on their own hardware or through a bare-metal service like Amazon AWS or Google Cloud.

Minimum required nodes

  • 1 producer node
  • 2 seed / API nodes
  • 1 producer node as a backup

A note on RAM

If you spawn too many API nodes you can potentially crash the environment by simply running out of RAM. Please account for RAM usage when you spawn additional API nodes under the same environment.

Intel Platform Machines ​

Node TypeNumber of NodesServer Info
API / Seed Node2Intel Xeon-E 2288G / 16t 3.7GHz - 5Ghz, 64GB DDR4 ECC 2666MHz RAM, 2 x 960GB SSD NVMe Soft RAID, Public Network 500Mbps unmetered (burst 1Gbs), Private Network 500Mbps
Producing Node1Intel Xeon-E 2274G / 8t 4GHz - 4.7Ghz, 64GB DDR4 ECC 2666MHz RAM, 2 x 960GB SSD NVMe Soft RAID, Public Network 500Mbps unmetered (burst 1Gbs), Private Network 500Mbps
Backup Producing Node1Intel Xeon-E 2274G / 8t 4GHz - 4.7Ghz, 64GB DDR4 ECC 2666MHz RAM, 2 x 960GB SSD NVMe Soft RAID, Public Network 500Mbps unmetered (burst 1Gbs), Private Network 500Mbps

Networking details ​

Certain ports need to be opened on your instance’s firewall.

  • SSH 22

  • HTTP 80

  • HTTPS 443

  • NODEOS 9876

  • WIREGUARD 45888

Only your API / Seed Node should have an exposed endpoint to the outside world. This is to ensure your producing nodes will continue producing regardless of network load.

A note on IP addresses

Ultra recommends requires all Block Producers use static external IPs for all instances.