Hardware Requirements

In order to maintain quality service across the Audius protocol, service hardware requirements are enforced by the on-chain governance protocol.

The minimum resource requirements per registered node are as follows.

Discovery Node

• 8 vCPU
• 16 GiB of RAM
• 256 GiB SSD

Content Node

• 8 vCPU
• 16 GiB of RAM
• 2000 GiB (2 TiB) SSD

History of election of node requirements can be viewed on the public governance forum: https://gov.audius.org/t/minimum-node-requirements/169