Edgevana is proud to support the Solana community. All of the server offerings below are eligible for the Solana Foundation’s Tour de Sun ’22. To be eligible to receive the incentive, make sure you have first signed up for the Tour de Sun ’22 before reserving your machine.
If you want to reserve one or more servers for use other than TdS22, make sure you have first signed up for the Solana Foundation Server Program before reserving your machine.
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There are the most frequently asked questions. If you have any other questions you can Contact us.
How do I get started?
Who is Edgevana?
Edgevana is a Data Center, Edge and Infrastructure provider selected by Solana Foundation to provide Validators to the Solana community.
What locations are available for my server(s)?
You can view all available locations when checking out a server here or in the #server-locations channel on the official Edgevana Discord.
How long does it take to sign up and get access to a server?
Are there commitments?
Is there a limit for how many servers I can purchase?
How does billing & invoicing work?
How do I cancel or stop my service with Edgevana?
Does the Solana Foundation profit from the sales of hardware by partners in this program?
How do I contact the Edgevana Support team?
Contact Edgevana, via:
What is “Enhanced Support”?
What if I have a problem with billing or payment?
Contact Edgevana, via:
What server options are available?
What type of security is provided?
What happens if my software or the operating system has a problem?
What security am I responsible for?
You are responsible for the ongoing maintenance and security of the operating system and the software deployed on the servers you deploy with Edgevana. This includes securing each server and responding to any exploits, abuses, or other behaviors.
We encourage you to apply patches and updates to your system regularly – at least once per week. We also recommend that you use SSH keys for logging into your system, as described in this article.
Why does my system only show 447 GB of storage?
Currently, all systems have THREE drives: the boot drive that is mounted, and 1TB and 2TB NVMe drives that are not mounted. Feel free to format these two and mount them as you wish. The Solana documentation and Discord server have some guidance regarding that. Here is a command that shows the drives available:
ubuntu@edgevana1:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 1 447.1G 0 disk
|-sda1 8:1 1 243M 0 part /boot/efi
|-sda2 8:2 1 1.9G 0 part /boot
`-sda3 8:3 1 445G 0 part /
nvme1n1 259:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
nvme0n1 259:1 0 1.8T 0 disk
How do I monitor my validator node, to ensure it is running correctly?
There are a variety of tools available for this. There are a number of monitoring tools on the moderated Solana Discord channel #validator-resources .Solana Mission Control might be the best package for monitoring. Others include: solana-validator, grafana, Datadog, or Pingdom. Custom shell scripts are another option
Note: Edgevana does not endorse any outside sources, and cannot be responsible for their content. Please use your own judgment with this information
I can't remember my password
For security reasons, we do not store the initial password and it is only available in your web portal for five days. Did you change it to something else?
If you cannot login to your system, contact Edgevana:
I just reinstalled my system, what is the password now?
After you Reinstall your system, the password is set to the initial password you were given when the system was first provisioned. If you don’t know this password, please contact Edgevana Customer Support, via:
Are there any regular meetings or discussions for Validators?
Can I customize my server hardware? (RAM, NVMe, CPU, etc.)
We wish that we could add special hardware to different systems, but are currently unable to do this. Because we have hundreds of systems, we need to keep them consistent in order to keep our pricing as low as it is. Currently we offer a good variety of configurations that you may select from.
Please help us to understand what you want, so we can discuss it with the Solana team. Here are options for reaching us:
What does “2 Gbps pipe with 300 Mbps commit, burstable” really mean?
The guaranteed bandwidth is 300 Mbps, and it is burstable well over that, as long as these bursts are less than 5% of the month. We use the 95 percentile methodology for bandwidth usage calculations. This means the top 36 hours (top 5% of 720 hours) of peak traffic is not taken into account when billed for an entire month. Bandwidth could be used at a higher rate than 300 Mbps for up to 72 min a day with no financial penalty.
For example: Customer A buys a server with the default 300 Mbps bandwidth commitment. During the month, they may be downloading some databases or installing some packages at burst speeds of up to 1.5 Gbps. Other times, the Internet bandwidth usage is at or below the 300 Mbps commit level. We monitor his actual bandwidth usage every 5 minutes. At the end of the month, we sort the usage, take the top 5% peeks and throw them out. Then we take the highest peak usage in the bottom 95%. If this peak usage is at or below 300 Mbps, no additional bandwidth fees are charged. If this peak usage is for example 500 Mbps, then the user is billed for an additional 200 Mbps at overage rates.
If your validator runs at the full speed of 300 Mbps (transfers 300 Mbp per second) all the time, that adds up to a total of 741 Tib (92.7TiB) of data transfer a month.
If your validator runs at the full speed of 300Mbps (transfers 300Mbp per second) all the time, that adds up to a total of 741Tib (92.7TiB) of data transfer a month.
What are your network overage fees?
Our overage charge is $0.42/Mbps.
For example, if your server uses 400 Mbps for more than 5% of the month (see the article titled, “What does “2 Gbps pipe with 300 Mbps commit, burstable” really mean?” for details), your server would be using 100 Mbps over the 300 Mbps included. Based on that, you would be charge 100 Mbps * $.42 = $42 in overage fees for that month.
How long should a system reload take?
Our overage charge is $0.42/Mbps.
For example, if your server uses 400 Mbps for more than 5% of the month (see the article titled, “What does “2 Gbps pipe with 300 Mbps commit, burstable” really mean?” for details), your server would be using 100 Mbps over the 300 Mbps included. Based on that, you would be charge 100 Mbps * $.42 = $42 in overage fees for that month.
How long should a system reload take?
I just reinstalled my server, but I am unable to reconnect due to an SSH key issue
The error you encountered indicates that your computer still has the old host ID information. A new crypto key for the host is generated when the operating system or SSH is reinstalled.
If you see the following messages when you reload your server:
cp /Users/reggieb/.ssh/known_hosts /Users/reggieb/.ssh/known_hosts.old
Then, please edit the /Users/reggieb/.ssh/known_hosts file directly. You will notice the file is arranged: computername, ip-address veryLongKey, where each line is its own computer and key. In this case, remove the entire offending line that has the server IP address 101.101.101.101 – line 3.
Is there a fee for canceling?
What is the crypto pay processing fee?
Can I request that another OS such as Debian be installed on my server?
Can you make a RAID for me on a new server?