Costs for running Electrum Server

[OmegaStarScream]

I want someone who is already running an electrum server and has so experience with this subject so It's easier for him to answer my questions and any help is highly appreciated. I want to know how much It costs to run an Electrum server and what is/are services that you are using to do that .

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[mocacinno]

I want someone who is already running an electrum server and has so experience with this subject so It's easier for him to answer my questions and any help is highly appreciated. I want to know how much It costs to run an Electrum server and what is/are services that you are using to do that .

I used to run one on a container on my dedicated machine. I stopped because running an electrum server was actually rather resource intensive, and i needed those resources for other things.

IIRC, you needed the full blockchain sync'ed and indexed (txindex=1), you also needed to download (or generate) a leveldb db for electrum. The total size of the bitcoind + electrum db was about ~150 Gb IIRC.
I ran it on a container, first i allocated 4 Gb RAM and 2 Vcpu's, but i upgraded the container to 8Gb pretty soon, and the performance still wasn't that great.
I'm pretty sure nowadays, you'll need at least 16, preferable 32 Gb of RAM, an SSD and 4 vCPU's to run everything smoothly. This wouldn't be a real problem, but you get no tips and no recognition to run an electrum server (at least, i didn't get a single thank you, nor a single tip)

[OmegaStarScream]

I used to run one on a container on my dedicated machine. I stopped because running an electrum server was actually rather resource intensive, and i needed those resources for other things.

IIRC, you needed the full blockchain sync'ed and indexed (txindex=1), you also needed to download (or generate) a leveldb db for electrum. The total size of the bitcoind + electrum db was about ~150 Gb IIRC.
I ran it on a container, first i allocated 4 Gb RAM and 2 Vcpu's, but i upgraded the container to 8Gb pretty soon, and the performance still wasn't that great.
I'm pretty sure nowadays, you'll need at least 16, preferable 32 Gb of RAM, an SSD and 4 vCPU's to run everything smoothly. This wouldn't be a real problem, but you get no tips and no recognition to run an electrum server (at least, i didn't get a single thank you, nor a single tip)

For how long you was running the servers ? I sometimes check the addresses that I see in the messages on the console tab and I found that some people sent funds there , I know It's nothing much but well...
and approximately , how much you think It would cost me ? I'm not going to run it from my home or anything , I will be buying them online (probably buying monthly).

[zebedee]

Try ElectrumX by me, it's way more lightweight:

https://github.com/kyuupichan/electrumx

[mocacinno]

I used to run one on a container on my dedicated machine. I stopped because running an electrum server was actually rather resource intensive, and i needed those resources for other things.

IIRC, you needed the full blockchain sync'ed and indexed (txindex=1), you also needed to download (or generate) a leveldb db for electrum. The total size of the bitcoind + electrum db was about ~150 Gb IIRC.
I ran it on a container, first i allocated 4 Gb RAM and 2 Vcpu's, but i upgraded the container to 8Gb pretty soon, and the performance still wasn't that great.
I'm pretty sure nowadays, you'll need at least 16, preferable 32 Gb of RAM, an SSD and 4 vCPU's to run everything smoothly. This wouldn't be a real problem, but you get no tips and no recognition to run an electrum server (at least, i didn't get a single thank you, nor a single tip)

For how long you was running the servers ? I sometimes check the addresses that I see in the messages on the console tab and I found that some people sent funds there , I know It's nothing much but well...
and approximately , how much you think It would cost me ? I'm not going to run it from my home or anything , I will be buying them online (probably buying monthly).

I've ran a server for a couple of months.
The cost, rather hard to say since VPS prices differ so much... You'll need an 8Gb VPS with 200 Gb SSD and at least 2 vCPU's. I guess it won't come that cheap.

Try ElectrumX by me, it's way more lightweight:

https://github.com/kyuupichan/electrumx

Seems cool... I'm going to check it out next time i have some spare server resources

[OmegaStarScream]

Try ElectrumX by me, it's way more lightweight:

https://github.com/kyuupichan/electrumx

Looks good but If using the known Electrum Server will make me use  8Gb RAM , 200GB SSD , 2 CPUs VPS as mentioned above by mocacinno then how much ElectrumX is supposed to take ?

[zebedee]

Try ElectrumX by me, it's way more lightweight:

https://github.com/kyuupichan/electrumx

Looks good but If using the known Electrum Server will make me use  8Gb RAM , 200GB SSD , 2 CPUs VPS as mentioned above by mocacinno then how much ElectrumX is supposed to take ?

3GB RAM is ample. 40GB of disk space should give enough to last another year or two of blockchain growth. The current dB is a little under 20GB.  Dual core is perfect - python only uses one core in general.

[OmegaStarScream]

Try ElectrumX by me, it's way more lightweight:

https://github.com/kyuupichan/electrumx

Looks good but If using the known Electrum Server will make me use  8Gb RAM , 200GB SSD , 2 CPUs VPS as mentioned above by mocacinno then how much ElectrumX is supposed to take ?

3GB RAM is ample. 40GB of disk space should give enough to last another year or two of blockchain growth. The current dB is a little under 20GB.  Dual core is perfect - python only uses one core in general.

I guess I'm missing something then , isn't the blockchain size 60gb++ size at the moment ? how come I will be downloading a database of 20gb only ? what does the electrum database contains exactly

[zebedee]

I guess I'm missing something then , isn't the blockchain size 60gb++ size at the moment ? how come I will be downloading a database of 20gb only ? what does the electrum database contains exactly

I'm talking about ElectrumX. Bitcoind is separate, and can be on an entirely different host, which is how I am set up.