You Will Need
- Electricity.
- An always-on Internet connection. It does not have to be fixed IP.
- Spare computer or Raspberry Pi (Hardware.)
- At least one hard drive partition fully dedicated to Plebstor.
If you have everything except Hardware, and still wish to participate, we may be able to help by providing node hardware that can be shipped to you.
Node Types and Requirements
Raspberry Pi
- Raspberry Pi. Pi4 is preferred.
- RAM: 1 GB minimum. 4 GB RAM is preferred.
- External Hard Drive 1 TB or larger
i5 Basic
- Minimum: Core i5 (dual core) or similar AMD CPU with virtualization extensions.
- 4 GB RAM.
- At least 1 TB disk. Multiple disks? We love that!
i7 Pro
- Minimum: Quad Core processor.
- 16 GB or more RAM.
- At least 4 TB disk. Multiple disks? Great!
Cloud Nodes
You can also run nodes in the cloud. There are numerous providers out there. The nodes can be configured to your choosing for data storage, CPU or Memory. If you want to run a cloud node, we ask that it’s dedicated for Plebstor only. Please contact us if you like to contribute a cloud node so we can coordinate the node configuration to suit the needs of the network.
Operating System and Software
We run Ubuntu LTS Linux as our main system. Nodes are free to run their own systems if they wish, but to keep things simple, we recommend Ubuntu LTS.
We make extensive use of Docker and KVM, Virtualbox as system level components.
Distributed clusters we maintain are built using Ceph, IPFS, MongoDB, MySQL, and other open source software.