In short, the cost of running a witness node is very low and you get paid. The cost of running a full node is insanely high and you don't get paid.
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In short, the cost of running a witness node is very low and you get paid. The cost of running a full node is insanely high and you don't get paid.
A full node costs $700-$1,000/month, and soon to be much much more. It's not cheap, yet a witness node costs $60 and pays anywhere from $0 to $100K+/year. Not saying top 20 shouldn't run one, but it shows the flaw in the system.
A full node has nothing to do with witnessing, and this is coming from some who manages 4 full nodes. Full nodes are a dev project, and a project the size of DTube shouldn't be using public nodes and should have their own, just like any large projects, especially with 2M free delegation.
Public nodes serve one purpose, they allow small projects to bootstrap and avoid the crippling expense of a full node allowing them to bootstrap. Once you get large enough, you should be using your own private full nodes to sustain your project not leaching off the very few public full nodes that are available and overwhelmed.
Hi, why full node cost so much? what bandwidth/month please?
Because of the ram requirements (512GB+)
oh, and mayby that can be put on large ssd to do the ram work?
because im interested to host such from home, no way i can have so much ram.
Using ssd would require 4 week or longer to replay.
I agree. This needs to be addressed.