No miners, but is it okay to run a node for data indexing?
tansandoteth
PROOP

a year ago

Miner would verify transactions and run the expensive compute to solve for a reward. While an indexer would be running a node to connect to the blockchain to just get the data without the energy power required of a proof-of-work miner.

8 Replies

tansandoteth
PROOP

a year ago

N/A

brody
EMPLOYEE

a year ago

yeah that's fine, from my understanding they use a lot of disk? if so, railway is going to be the most cost effective

passos
MODERATOR

a year ago

if you're talking about subgraphs and stuff, yes its allowed and even the official way of https://ponder.sh/docs/production/deploy

brody
EMPLOYEE

a year ago

that runs a development server haha

tansandoteth
PROOP

a year ago

yeh. just hypothetically speaking, what does 1tb disk pricing look like?

brody
EMPLOYEE

a year ago

a lot -

tansandoteth
PROOP

a year ago

oof yeh thats kind of pricey

tansandoteth
PROOP

a year ago

thanks again brody!

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