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High-Level Build Configuration

Introduction

This guide won't cover topics such as high availability, failover and resilience. If or how you build resilience into your design is a complex topic and there are many different ways it could be achieved. There is also a risk that including processes like automatic failover could cause double-signing of proposals which could at a future date lead to slashing.
We will be configuring two servers. In both cases there is an assumption you have already built the servers and are starting at a base Linux image level. There are plenty of guides and tutorials on the Internet on how to build and correctly configure an EC2 Instance which I won't provide here.
  1. 1.
    The Radix Validator Node Server
  2. 2.
    A Web Server for hosting Prometheus and Grafana

Node Server Hardware (AWS EC2)

  • c5.2xlarge
  • 8 vCPU
  • 16GB memory
  • 100GB of GP2 storage increasing in size as required
  • 10Gbps of Network bandwidth
  • Ubuntu 20.0.4.2.0 LTS (Focal Fossa)

Node Server Software

  • Node exporter
  • fail2ban
  • Google authenticator 2FA

Web Server Hardware (AWS EC2)

  • t2.micro (AWS free-tier)
  • 1 vCPU
  • 1GB memory
  • 8GB storage (magnetic will be fine)

Web Server Software

  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Nginx Web Server
  • Let’s Encrypt