{"id":51235,"date":"2021-10-15T10:17:49","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T07:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51235"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:33:00","slug":"solana-foundation-launches-server-rental-program-for-validators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/solana-foundation-launches-server-rental-program-for-validators\/","title":{"rendered":"Solana Foundation launches server-rental program for validators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Solana Foundation, the nonprofit behind the Solana blockchain, has opened up the option for validators to run nodes on server hardware.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2\/ The Server Program allows current and future Solana node operators to gain access to high-quality bare-metal servers with flexible, month-to-month contracts directly from top-tier data center providers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Solana Foundation (@SolanaFndn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SolanaFndn\/status\/1448724348164984836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abThe Server Program allows current and future Solana node operators to gain access to high-quality bare-metal servers without an operating system or other software, with flexible month-to-month contracts from data-center providers,\u00bb the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Potential renters must register in the program and complete the KYC process. After signing an agreement, they will gain access to the equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The minimum rental period is one month, and the maximum number of servers per validator is limited to two.<\/p>\n<p>Solana Foundation&#8217;s partners include data-center operators Equinix, Lumen and Stackpath. The foundation expects to expand their number in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the organization does not profit from selling computing power by partners.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u00abThis additional program is open to anyone who wants to help protect the network by running their own node,\u00bb said the Solana Foundation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On 14 September 2021, a major outage affected the Solana mainnet, during which new blocks were not produced for more than 16 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Full functionality of the blockchain <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/solana-developers-identify-cause-of-major-outage\">was restored in less than a day<\/a> after the restart. The developers cited <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DoS-%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0#:~:text=DoS%20(%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0)%3A\">DoS-\u0430\u0442\u0430\u043a\u0443.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Solana Foundation, the nonprofit behind the Solana blockchain project, has opened up the option for validators to run nodes on server hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1289,130,1159],"class_list":["post-51235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrency-staking","tag-decentralization","tag-solana-sol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"25","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51237,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51235\/revisions\/51237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}