From 2e8b3620da9b66865cb03807057d0608f86230f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shannon Appelcline Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:42:34 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update 2A_Setting_Up_a_Bitcoin-Core_VPS_by_Hand.md --- 2A_Setting_Up_a_Bitcoin-Core_VPS_by_Hand.md | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/2A_Setting_Up_a_Bitcoin-Core_VPS_by_Hand.md b/2A_Setting_Up_a_Bitcoin-Core_VPS_by_Hand.md index 9e93af9..de9ede2 100644 --- a/2A_Setting_Up_a_Bitcoin-Core_VPS_by_Hand.md +++ b/2A_Setting_Up_a_Bitcoin-Core_VPS_by_Hand.md @@ -47,9 +47,19 @@ If your cloud provider offers two-factor authentication for their web tools, we ### Create a Machine -You should now create your Bitcoin VPS. If you want to install an unPruned Mainnet setup, you'll need more than 120G of disk space. If you instead plan to use a Pruned setup, a much smaller amount will do: this currently takes up about 15G of storage, so make sure you have 24G or 30G to be sure. You'll also need at least 2G of memory to run bitcoind. +You should now create your Bitcoin VPS. Most setups require 5-15G of storage and 2-3G of memory. The non-Pruned Mainnet is the only setup that requires considerably more: about 120G of memory to hold the current blockchain. -We suggest Pruned setup unless you're planning to set up a miner or a complex Bitcoin service. +Following are suggests for machine requirements: + +| Setup | Memory | Storage | +|-------|--------|---------| +| Mainnet | 2-3G | 120G | +| Pruned Mainnet | 2-3G | ~5G | +| Testnet | 2-3G | ~15G | +| Pruned Testnet | 2-3G | ~5G | +| Regtest | 2-3G | ~ | + +We suggest Testnet if you're planning to play around and learn Bitcoin and a Pruned setup unless you're planning to set up a miner or a complex Bitcoin service. We also suggest you choose a Debian 8 image when you're creating your machine. These commands were all tested on Debian 8.7 (jessie). The further you get away from that, the less likely things will work as laid out here. So, another Debian is probably OK and maybe ubuntu, but we've tried these out on a Mac, and we know that it's missing some commands like "wget". So, installer beware!