How much does it cost to run a node in

1st world country? Can't be that costly. Plenty of unemployed can afford their game consoles and electricity to play all day and night + cost of weed. Sounds like weak argument against running a node.

I currently pay €132.46 a month for my VPS. Sure, it's a bit of a 'luxury' hosting provider (TransIP) because I'm fond of and familiar with their expansive control panel, it offers all the right features for me to run my own mail server/daemon, I'm using a Windows tech stack and server hosting which is obviously more expensive than *nix, et cetera. I could always cut corners and probably get cheaper hosting elsewhere, fact of the matter is DigiByte Core/CLI in itself already requires 6 GB of RAM just to run, that's not even counting the RAM I need for my OS, my database platform and my own applications. I also run a DigiByte node at home on both my Windows home PC and my oDroid (Ubuntu) which essentially costs nothing, but I think many people don't realize that running a web application or platform costs money, especially when you need excessive extra capacity in terms of RAM (or disk space/bandwidth for that matter). It's a simple sum in the end, the profits should ultimately negate the recurring expenses and it's simply not viable at the moment, even if I'd be paying less than a fourth of what I'm currently paying. Compare that to Dogecoin or Monero's core that respectively use just 2 GB and 3 GB of RAM and have much more volume and a bigger audience, and it's often purely economical motivated why DigiByte is often left out when it comes to exchanges or implementations in libraries such as BitcoinLib or Bitpay that support a myriad of cryptocurrencies.

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@LeroyGerrits is correct, some business prefer node service providers. I follow compares nodes on X and they track all node service providers some are free and others cost money. When a business upgrades their node service the speed improves but the better services packages will cost more.

There's parties like NowNodes that act as intermediaries/providers where you can do blockchain-y stuff without having to run/host your own node but of course that comes at the cost of a license/pricing model and you'll be introducing a third-party dependency in your software. Nothing in life is free.

Since compare nodes visited us on discord we were only on 3 node service providers out of 104 providers. Compare nodes use ai to track best services for their customers. The number of nodes they track have grown and we are supported by 4 providers now. Ethereum is supported by 80+ providers, even only having 4 support DigiByte were in the top 20 with the most service providers.

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5 Even. They're still (external) dependencies each with their own pricing model though. You typically want as few of those as possible in your software/architecture. In a sense DigiByte Core is already such a dependency (which has failed on me twice in a month now, by the way), those Node providers will also use DigiCyte Core under the hood so in the end they're just an extra layer of abstraction or dependency on top of everything, and they don't come free. Some of them offer a licensing model where you can make up to a certain amount of API calls for free, but once you have a platform that even becomes remotely active those kind of things can become pretty costly and that threshold for free requests is pretty low. Same goes for seemingly simple stuff such as a Google Maps with a bunch of pins with data on them or translating coordinates to an address ("Reverse geocoding"), there's a limit to the amount of "requests" you can make, and once you cross that threshold you can rake up costs extremely quickly.

To be fair there is a difference running a production node on a rental server than running a computer in your garage.