From: Thomas Zander <thomas@thomaszander.se>
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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 12:09:06 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Running a full node
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On Thursday 6. November 2014 10.51.38 Francis GASCHET wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
>  I'm currently discovering the Bitcoin's universe.
>  I installed bitcoind on my PC and I'm currently testing different things
> on testnet. I just read an article saying that the risk for Bitcoin in the
> future is the decreasing number of full nodes, with appropriate resources.
> There are only few of them in France !
> 
>  My company operates a dual homed Internet access and has some capacity to
> host an HA server in a secured environment. So I'm thinking about setting
> up a full node. But I'd like to know what storage, RAM  and bandwidth
> resources are needed. I guess that the problem is not the CPU.

There is a stats script running on this node;

http://213.165.91.169/

more peoples opinions;
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=760094.0

-- 
Thomas Zander