Deploy Solana servers purpose-built for validators and RPC nodes. High-clock CPUs, ECC RAM, NVMe SSDs, and unmetered bandwidth keep your node fast, synced, and profitable.
Note: Bandwidth upgrades are available during checkout for enhanced performance.
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Every component in our Solana servers is selected for maximum performance and reliability. From the processor to the network interface, we've eliminated bottlenecks that could impact your validator's performance.
| Component | Specification | Solana Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | AMD EPYC 9555P (Zen 5 - Turin) | 64 cores @ 3.20–4.40 GHz for parallel transaction processing |
| RAM | 768 GB DDR5 | Handles large account databases with headroom for growth |
| Storage | 2 × 1.92 TB NVMe SSD | Ultra-fast I/O for ledger and snapshot management |
| Network | 10 Gbit/s dedicated uplink | Low-latency connectivity for rapid block propagation |
| Bandwidth | Unmetered transfer | No overage charges during high network activity |
| IPMI | Full remote management | 24/7 access for monitoring and maintenance |
Choose the right setup for your validator, RPC, or institutional workloads, built to scale without compromise.
Engineered for precise vote performance and continuous uptime.
Optimized for real-time Solana application traffic.
Enterprise-grade bare metal for funds and analytics teams.
Every Solana dedicated server runs on AMD EPYC, Ryzen, or Intel Xeon processors built for high-frequency validation. Parallel cores and optimized cache handling keep your Solana validator in sync-reducing slot skips and missed block rewards.
Built for Solana’s demanding workloads, RedSwitches servers feature Gen4/5 NVMe storage, ECC DDR5 memory, and 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps, & 25 Gbps networking. Expect ultra-fast I/O, rock-solid stability, and low-latency synchronization for validator and RPC deployments.
RedSwitches provides true unmetered bandwidth-sync ledgers, serve RPC requests, or stream snapshots freely. No throttling, no hidden limits. Ideal for maintaining continuous validator activity during traffic spikes or epoch transitions.
Deploy your Solana server in 20+ regions. Closer proximity to peer clusters means faster consensus and RPC responses. Each facility runs redundant power and cooling to ensure uninterrupted validator and RPC operations worldwide.
Every Solana server includes full administrative control. Adjust kernel parameters, install Solana or Jito clients, and fine-tune system flags directly for complete flexibility in validator optimization or RPC performance tuning.
Each Solana server includes enterprise-grade L4/L7 DDoS filters. Public RPC endpoints stay responsive, and validators remain secure even during targeted network floods or volumetric attacks.
Our Solana servers operate on redundant networks backed by a 99.99 % SLA. Validators stay online, votes never miss, and RPC nodes remain consistent during maintenance or unexpected link interruptions.
Integrated IPMI and KVM tools provide hardware-level control. Reboot, reinstall, or troubleshoot any Solana RPC node remotely - no onsite intervention required. Faster recovery, complete command.
RedSwitches accepts Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins for Solana server payments. Web3 teams can provision or renew infrastructure seamlessly, staying crypto-native while scaling validators or RPC clusters.
RedSwitches Solana servers speed up block validation with high-clock CPUs and ECC RAM. Validators process votes faster, avoid slot skips, and maintain consistent uptime even during peak network congestion.
Operators can store full blockchain history with multi-NVMe configurations. These Solana servers handle 400 TB+ of ledger data, supporting analytics, compliance reviews, and long-term blockchain forensics efficiently.
DeFi teams host RPC endpoints on RedSwitches' servers to manage real-time swaps and liquidity analytics. Dedicated compute and unmetered traffic keep transaction throughput high, even during token surges.
Enterprises use Solana dedicated servers for regional compliance. Private data centers in EMEA and APAC meet residency laws, ensuring secure handling of blockchain records for regulated exchanges and custodians.
RedSwitches hardware powers hybrid AI and Solana datasets. Teams use high-RAM configurations to train models on live blockchain activity. Combining node telemetry with on-chain intelligence for predictive analytics.
Blockchain games use our Solana servers for fast transaction processing. Low-latency infrastructure supports NFT minting, micro-purchases, and real-time leaderboard updates without performance dips during peak gameplay.
Institutions aggregate Solana blockchain data through our dedicated RPC nodes. High-throughput pipelines feed warehouse tools for auditing, trend analysis, and real-time market intelligence with minimal query delay.
Our validator-ready servers support Jito clients and MEV strategies. High-frequency trading bots gain priority execution, while low jitter and private networking reduce missed arbitrage opportunities.
Bridge operators use RedSwitches Solana servers for stable, high-bandwidth connections. Fast synchronization ensures smooth transfers between Solana, Ethereum, and other chains, reducing failed swaps and token lock events.
RedSwitches servers aren’t just for Solana — they’re built for every major blockchain. Our high-performance bare metal lets teams run validators, RPC nodes, and indexers across multiple chains with the same reliability, speed, and control.
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Frequently Asked Questions
A dedicated Solana node server is a server exclusively allocated to operate a Solana blockchain node. It fully participates in the network by validating transactions, maintaining the blockchain ledger, and ensuring the decentralization and security of the Solana network.
Utilizing a dedicated server for running a Solana node offers enhanced performance, reliability, and security. Dedicated resources ensure that your node operates without interference from other applications, providing consistent uptime and reducing the risk of downtime or latency issues.
The hardware requirements for a Solana node include:
Running your own Solana node requires technical preparation, hardware readiness, and the right software stack. At RedSwitches, we provide the optimized bare-metal infrastructure and expertise to help you deploy and maintain high-performance Solana nodes — whether for RPC access or validator participation.
1. Hardware & Environment Requirements
We recommend deploying your Solana node on our dedicated bare-metal servers for peak performance and reliability.
Minimum Hardware Specs:
Recommended OS:
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS or other stable Linux distributions.
2. Install Software Components
Once your server is provisioned, install the necessary tools:
3. Generate Keypairs
Before launching your node, you’ll need to generate keypairs:
All keypairs must be stored securely. We suggest encrypting and backing them up in isolated storage.
4. Initialize the Node
5. Launch and Monitor
Performance and Security Tips from RedSwitches
Prefer a Managed Setup
Not ready to manage all of this in-house? RedSwitches offers fully managed Solana RPC and validator nodes with:
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Solana’s JSON-RPC API is developers’ primary interface to interact with the blockchain. Whether you’re building a dApp, querying on-chain data, or sending transactions, this API gives you direct access to the Solana ledger in real time.
At RedSwitches, we host high-performance Solana RPC nodes that support all major API methods—ensuring fast, consistent, and reliable responses even under heavy request loads.
Commonly Used RPC Methods
Block-Level Queries
Account-Level Queries
Transactions
Utility Functions
getProgramAccounts – Return all accounts owned by a specific program ID.
For a complete reference, check the official Solana RPC API documentation →
Want custom RPC setup or endpoint tuning? Talk to our team via live chat now to get a response within 5 minutes.
Running the Solana infrastructure is complex. Many teams struggle to match hardware with workload, tune performance, and control costs. This guide explains it all clearly and in one place.
You’ll learn how a Solana dedicated server works at a hardware level. We show which CPU, RAM, and storage setups matter for validators and Solana RPC nodes. You’ll see why bandwidth and location impact slot skips, latency, and uptime.
We cover the full lifecycle of validator hosting, from first testnet experiments to enterprise-grade production deployments. This includes best practices for snapshots, pruning, monitoring, and Jito MEV integration.
You’ll also discover how to pick a trusted Solana node provider. We compare bare metal with cloud, explain scaling patterns for RPC, and show how to protect nodes from DDoS and compliance risks.
Everything you didn’t find above, hardware logic, performance tuning, and cost planning, is here in detail.
Running a Solana server starts with knowing the node roles. Each node type has a different job and different hardware needs. Picking the wrong setup leads to lag, missed rewards, or unstable apps.
These secure the Solana network. Validators vote on blocks, produce transactions, and keep consensus moving. They need high-clock CPUs, large ECC RAM, and fast NVMe storage to avoid slot skips and missed votes.
RPC nodes act as Solana’s API layer. They serve data to dApps, wallets, and exchanges. Performance depends on fast CPUs, huge memory for account indexes, and unmetered bandwidth to handle high traffic without rate limits.
These store the full history of the blockchain. They’re used for analytics, compliance, and forensic work. Storage must scale to hundreds of terabytes with high IOPS to replay or query historical data.
Specialized validator setups focused on extracting maximal value from transaction ordering. They need the same power as validators, plus low-jitter networking and private links to relays.
A Solana RPC node needs at least one high-clock CPU (24+ cores), 512 GB ECC RAM for account indexes, three separate NVMe drives (OS, accounts, ledger), and a 10 Gbps uplink. This mix ensures low latency and stable response times.
Hardware is the backbone of a Solana dedicated server. The wrong choice can cripple validator rewards or RPC throughput. The right choice makes scaling easy and costs predictable.
AMD EPYC chips dominate validator hosting because of high core counts and cache. Intel Xeon offers predictable clocks for consistent p95 latency. Ryzen can work for testnet but lacks ECC and enterprise stability for mainnet.
Validators run well at 256 GB ECC RAM, but perform better with 512 GB as the ledger grows. Heavy RPC workloads and indexing can push memory needs toward 1 TB. ECC prevents silent corruption under a 24/7 load.
Solana’s ledger writes are random and intense. NVMe drives offer much higher IOPS and lower latency than SATA. Splitting OS, accounts, and ledger onto separate NVMe volumes improves replay speed and prevents bottlenecks.
Solana nodes can push 80–150 TB/month. A 1 Gbps link is quickly saturated during spikes. A 10 Gbps unmetered uplink ensures smooth gossip, vote transmission, and RPC responses without overage fees.
A reliable Solana node provider offers these specs pre-configured with remote access, DDoS protection, and global locations. This reduces setup time, lowers operational risk, and gives operators predictable performance across validator and RPC nodes.
Most Solana operators use Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. It's secure, stable, and supported by tooling like Docker, Ansible, and systemd services. It handles kernel tuning, networking stacks, and resource management for heavy workloads.
Solana provides a CLI-based installer. You can run the bootstrap, download the snapshot, and connect to the cluster in a few commands. Dedicated Solana nodes should set up isolated users, auto-restart scripts, and disk monitoring.
For MEV-enabled validators, Jito requires a custom validator binary and setup with relays. You’ll need stable bandwidth, optimized block production, and low-jitter networking to profit from MEV without compromising slot participation.
Prometheus, Grafana, and Solana-exporter are widely used to monitor node status, transaction rates, account loading, and slot consistency. Add alerts to catch restarts, crashes, or block skips early.
Harden SSH access, enforce firewall rules, and use Fail2ban. Keep validator keys offline. Always use full-disk encryption for sensitive servers.
Track your vote credits and skip rate metrics via Solana validators. If the skip rate rises, check CPU throttling, I/O bottlenecks, or bandwidth loss. Skipped slots = lost rewards and potential stake slashes.
Use Prometheus with node_exporter to track:
Grafana dashboards help spot anomalies. Alert when key metrics cross thresholds.
Solana nodes benefit from regular snapshots. Schedule them during off-peak hours. Store them on fast NVMe volumes for quick recovery. Validators syncing from scratch without snapshots take longer and risk desync.
Set pruning policies to reduce disk usage:
Archival nodes should not prune. RPC and validators can prune for efficiency.
Use tools like UptimeRobot or PagerDuty to receive alerts via email, Slack, or SMS. Flag downtimes, missed heartbeats, or CPU pressure before they cascade into slashes or client failures.
Result
Well-monitored Solana servers earn higher trust, fewer penalties, and support stable RPC response times across traffic spikes.
A single RPC node can’t handle unlimited traffic. Add multiple dedicated Solana RPC nodes with load balancers (e.g., HAProxy, NGINX). Use round-robin or geo-routing to distribute dApp or wallet requests.
Host in multiple data centers across regions (e.g., US-East, EU-West, Asia). This reduces latency, serves global users better, and creates fault tolerance. RedSwitches supports 20+ global locations for Solana servers.
Upgrade to a dedicated Solana node when:
Cloud autoscaling isn’t optimal for Solana. Spinning up a node takes time (due to ledger sync). Dedicated servers with fixed specs are better for predictable, performant Solana infrastructure.
Pick a Solana node provider that supports easy hardware upgrades, multiple locations, and fast deployment. RedSwitches offers 10-minute delivery, remote IPMI, and zero egress fees, key for scalable RPC operations.
If you’re hosting institutional RPC or validator workloads, choose a region aligned with your jurisdiction. GDPR (EU), PDPA (Singapore), and SOC 2 (US) may apply depending on where user data flows. RedSwitches offers compliant data centers in 20+ global locations.
Never store validator key pairs unencrypted. Always use external USB or HSM devices to sign. RedSwitches supports full disk encryption and root-only SSH access to help protect private keys.
Public-facing Solana RPC nodes are frequent targets. Use DDoS mitigation (Layer 4/7), rate limiting, and port-level firewalls. RedSwitches includes enterprise-grade DDoS filtering to keep RPC endpoints online during traffic floods.
Ensure all node communications (RPC, gossip, consensus) use TLS and SSH tunneling where applicable. Limit open ports. Monitor for unauthorized access.
At RedSwitches, you can order your Solana dedicated server and pay directly in crypto. We support a wide range of coins, including Solana (SOL) itself.
Payments are accepted through secure, trusted gateways like Cryptonomus. In addition to Solana, we also accept Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Tether (USDT), Polygon (MATIC), Binance Coin (BNB), Dogecoin (DOGE), Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), Litecoin (LTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), CGPT, TON, and TRON (TRX).
All transactions are processed securely with no banking delays. This gives you fast, flexible, and borderless payment options for your validator, RPC, or multi-chain nodes.
With secure architecture, compliance-ready regions, and crypto payment support, your Solana node operations remain protected, audit-friendly, and Web3-aligned.
Cloud providers like AWS or GCP may charge $3–5/hour for specs barely meeting Solana validator requirements. Add network egress ($0.08–$0.12/GB) and storage IOPS surcharges, and costs can reach $1,000+ per month for just one validator.
Solana requires syncing 2–4 TB of data during startup and streaming snapshots often. Cloud’s capped bandwidth throttles throughput. Worse, you may get rate-limited during peak usage, impacting uptime and rewards.
With RedSwitches, a dedicated Solana server offers:
That’s affordable for performance that cloud can't match, ideal for both validators and dedicated Solana RPC nodes.
Running multiple Solana servers? Bare metal lets you colocate validator, RPC, and archival nodes without overhead. You retain full control and can manage snapshots, ledger data, and network traffic from a single console.
For Solana infrastructure, bare metal wins on price, speed, and scalability, especially when you're moving past devnet and into real production workloads.
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