Servers — for witness nodes & mining

Two different machines for two different jobs. Here is what each actually needs, stated plainly.

A witness node (for MELEK / DPoS)

A witness node is a Graphene chain daemon that must stay online 24/7 and in sync to sign its blocks on schedule. It is not hash-heavy — it is uptime-heavy. Rough shape from our own running setup:

CPU: a couple of modern cores is plenty (signing is light).
RAM: a few GB; more headroom helps as chain state grows.
Disk: SSD with room for the full block log and state (grows over time).
Network: stable, always-on, low-latency — uptime is the whole job.

A small always-on VPS is the typical home for this. Missing your block slots loses you votes, so reliability matters more than raw power.

A mining rig (for the PoW pool)

RandomX (Monero-family) is CPU mining — modern multi-core CPUs with good memory bandwidth do best. Etchash / PRANA is GPU / DAG mining — a GPU with enough VRAM for the current DAG. You point either at the pool's stratum line (see Pool) as wallet.worker. No special rig? Use the in-browser miner — see Pool.

Renting hardware

Rental and affiliate slots are disabled by default here, pending operator review — we won't point you at an unvetted host or earn a hidden referral. The honest version: a witness node is a small always-on server, and a mining rig is whatever CPU/GPU you already have or rent by the hour. Use a provider you already trust.