Hello all, there seems to be a lot of discussions on nodes their hardware and their applications so I wanted to make a thread where we can all discuss the technical hardware requirements and some of the other pieces of tech needed (firewalls anybody?
To start here is the link to the onboarding: https://wiki.internetcomputer.org/wiki/Node_Provider_Onboarding
network speed: yes, 700 mb/s would be sufficient for current IC needs, we run a 1 gb/s contract on 10 gb/s ports (lines) and barely see daily (continuous) network utilization over 10%
firewall: as per Gen1 spec we use the Supermicro X11SDV-4C-TP8F firewall
Does this mean I should not purchase gen 2 hardware? I am literally In negotiations for a box in a dc w redundant hardware. Tell me now before I spend buku money on this.
@roald-av8 I have plans to become a node provider in southeast Asia. The only problem with Asian countries is the high cost of public dedicated internet. Even in colocation data centers with Tier 3 certification. In any of the requirements, you guys have not mentioned the public internet speed. Would a lease dedicated 100Mbps per node be enough?