I have had an AWS account and I was able to get a 3 year t2 micro which is 1GB ram and 30GB hd for $100 which is about $3/month cost. I have 2 payouts on my node already so have already paid back my node cost. From here on it is just profit. I am REALLY curious to see what happens as the number of nodes increases.
I am pretty sure Smartcash will do well, it will really depend on the overall crypto-sphere. Everything is far to closely tied to bitcoin right now so are still under it's influence.
Wow, well done! That's a nice set up, but my hunch is you'll need more than a GIG as the blockchain grows long before 3 years, but I guess time will tell.
Yeah, i was thinking about it when setting it up, the future needs, but if it comes to it I can always grab another upgraded instance and shift to it if needed. With everyone's scripts being made available it will be even easier to migrate if I have to.