I run a bitcoin node on a spare laptop at home without any problems along with three other proof of stake coins. Your biggest expense is probably bandwidth. I have Time Warner business class service. Make sure you allow port 8333 through your firewall so other nodes can connect to you.
Storage: https://blockchain.info/charts/blocks-size Bandwidth usage: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/12224/how-much-memory-and-bandwidth-does-bitcoind-take-up-on-a-centos-linux-system I hope that helps. On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Francis GASCHET <f...@numlog.fr> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm currently discovering the Bitcoin's universe. > I installedbitcoind on my PC and I'm currently testing different things > on testnet. > I just read an article saying that the risk for Bitcoin in the future is > the decreasing number of full nodes, with appropriate resources. There > are only few of them in France ! > > My company operates a dual homed Internet access and has some capacity > to host an HA server in a secured environment. So I'm thinking about > setting up a full node. > But I'd like to know what storage, RAM and bandwidth resources are > needed. I guess that the problem is not the CPU. > > Thanks in advance for details. > -- > Francis > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-list mailing list > bitcoin-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-list > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ bitcoin-list mailing list bitcoin-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-list
