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Guides, product updates and deep dives on high-performance infrastructure, low-latency networking and Solana hosting.
Frankfurt Servers Now Available: Completing Our EU Rollout
Frankfurt VPS is live, completing the initial European rollout. Why Frankfurt is one of the most important interconnection points in the world.
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Amsterdam Servers Now Available: One of Europe's Best-Connected Hubs
Amsterdam VPS is live. Why the AMS-IX ecosystem makes Amsterdam a top-tier location for low-latency European hosting.
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London Servers Now Available: Our First EU Location
London VPS is live with instant provisioning. A look at why London matters for European low-latency workloads and who should deploy there.
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Orders Are Now Open: Instant VPS Provisioning Is Live
Every Orbit Servers plan now provisions instantly. Here is how our automated deployment pipeline gets you online in under a minute.
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Introducing Orbit Servers
Orbit Servers is live - low-latency VPS and bare metal built for Solana and demanding workloads, starting in New York and Virginia.
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Which AMD CPU for Your Solana Workload: Validator, RPC Node, or Trading Bot
Validators and RPC nodes reward cores, RAM, and fast NVMe; trading bots reward raw single-thread clock and proximity. Here is how to map each Solana workload to the right AMD CPU and location.
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Self-hosting a Yellowstone Geyser gRPC node: hardware and setup
A concrete, honest guide to running your own Yellowstone Geyser gRPC node on Solana, covering hardware sizing, the default port and config, version pinning, and the bandwidth that makes this the heavy part of the job.
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Crypto-Friendly Hosting for Solana Validators: a Hetzner Alternative
Hetzner's terms ban running Solana validators, nodes, and staking on everything but colocation. Here's what that means for operators, and how to choose a crypto-friendly bare-metal alternative.
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Self-Hosted vs Managed Solana RPC: The Real Cost Math
Managed dedicated Solana RPC starts around $2,900/mo, while a serious self-hosted bare-metal node runs roughly $1,300-$1,500/mo in hardware. Here is the honest cost math, including the labor and redundancy costs that narrow the gap.
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