I am wondering what everyone is using right now. I have t3large (2 core 8 gig ram) on reserve 1 year no upfront. About $154 a month for 3 . Seems pretty high. I know the t4g are cheaper, but use ARM processors.
Edit: Seems a t3large (reserve, no upfront cost) is about 0.0516 x 24 hours x 30 = $37.152 (not including the EBS SSD) x 3 servers $111.456
I am using this plan from contabo
That is a cheap deal but I would have to start all over 
Thatās really good pricing. Thanks for sharing! Do you have any gripes about Contabo? Also, howās their uptime and customer service?
since september no issues;
cheers,
Iāve been really happy so far with Linode. I am on their shared CPU plan: 4GB RAM, 2 CPU, 80GB storage for $20/month. I then add in $5/month for backup
$75/month total for 3 serversā¦not too bad. If you Google Linode you can see a $100 credit in the advertisements or I can send you my referral code too if you message me.
t3a.medium instances with 1GB gp3 swap and a gp2 disk for the data works pretty wellā¦ I have two paid for 3 yearsā¦ Iāve had a single server for longer than Iāve had two of themā¦ I originally used jormungandr on the same server.
You should really use at least one instance per nodeā¦ However I have managed to get two copies of cardano-node on the same t3a instance with 4 GB swapā¦ but switching epochs was almost killing the server and I had a few out of memory issues when I tried to run cncliā¦ because it was using almost the whole swap spaceā¦ it did find blocks though.
If you are serious about running the stake pool, its better off going for reserved instances on AWS. Iād recommend to do reserved 3 year standard. I forget the exact numbers, but youād save up to 75%. In addition, paying partial or full upfront will save a little bit more too.
new version 1.26.1 has a lot of performance improvements
I move my Producer at home (Bare metal server);
CPU I5-9500T ( Cores: 6 Threads : 6) - 32G - 256 SSD and I am very happy 
Cheers,
We have a fully automated stack based on autoscaling groups in AWS. New nodes takes 2 minutes to be fully operational AND synced with full DB.
We started using t3a instances too but I noticed that we would chew the cpu credit and it would require cpu credit buy back (which is automatic on t3 btw).
So we migrated to more standard instances as mentioned @BugBounty3 , more m5a instances but same spirit.
In the meantime we worked on compiling cleanly cardano-node and cardano-cli on aarch64 architecture (ARM). Got a nice success so we moved to the arm based instances.
AWS is great if you use it smartly with all the tools (automation, autoscaling, mutliple AZ/Region, etc ā¦). You can then leverage all the benefits and keep the price under control for a great result and awesome resilience. If you are just login in the console to click and get an EC2 instance, you can get cheaper elsewhere, but probably not as reliable.
We are linux/cloud profesionnals so this is our bread and butter, I understand it might not be easy for everyone. Iāll start writting article about all this and distributing the ARM compilation we had.
@Alexd1985 Is 1.26.1 lastest stable yet ? I though it was not flagged as such.
Still in testingā¦
Ok yeah thanks, Iāll avoid it in prod then. Probably wiser.
Crazy prices. Do they have private networks between servers? I couldnāt find the info on their website.
huhā¦ I donāt know; I didnāt used
Sorry, I wasnāt very clear. With our current host we are able to have a private network between our servers (192.168.x.x or 10.x.x.x). This means that our BP accept only 1 incoming connection from internet: SSH. The BP server is communicating with the relays trough the private network so isolated from the internet (except for SSH).
I understood ur question 
but I didnāt used private network, u can ask them.
They will answer to any question!
Anywayā¦ I moved my producer at home, and now itās behind to a private network
Cheers,
Oh right, sorry 
. Might actually rent one for a month to test them out. Thanks for sharing.
