Hi SPO,
With the numbers of transactions increasing every epoch and Mary fork comming in march…do you think the official minimum hardware requirements (RAM) for relays and cores should be raise from 4 Gb to 8 Gb ?
The new cardano-node 1.25.1 seem to need a bit more power.
There is actualy 4 529 relays on Cardano network and 774 are offline…it’s near 20% offline. I think to avoid more offline relays, IOHK should quickly raise minimum hardware requirements.
I planned to upgrade my servers next week.
What do you think ?
Are you ready for Cardano March Madness ?
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I’m surprised that no one has answered this yet. The minimum RAM requirements for the relays and BP is actually at 8GB, especially if you have a lot of peer connections. While you can run with 4GBs, it doesn’t leave much room and I’ve had a few relays go down because of it. Typically the relays on AOAUS will use around 5GB.
@Alexd1985 That’s definitely not a minimum for a block producer and more a future proof setup 
I run ADATools.io and just 1 node with 8 cores and 16GB of RAM can easily handle 800,000 queries plus cardano-node syncing in 24 hours. 8GB of RAM at this point for any BP or relay is more than enough.
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For me the SSD speed (most servers with SSDs don’t go much beyond 5000 IOPS) and high availability / live migration justify the costs. So far my BP has gone through 3 hardware failures and was “migrated” with no down time.
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