1. Go to the Solana Foundation Server Program Page. Click on “Sign Up Here”.
2. Once you have gone through KYC (Know Your Customer) with Solana Foundation, come back to this page and Click Here.
3. If you’re already KYC approved by Solana Foundation, Click Here to get started.

Edgevana is a Data Center, Edge and Infrastructure provider selected by Solana Foundation to provide Validators to the Solana community.

You can view all available locations when checking out a server here or in the #server-locations channel on the official Edgevana Discord.

• No. The Solana Foundation has committed to enabling this program through a bulk purchasing agreement.
• The Foundation does not receive kickbacks or profit sharing with Edgevana in any way.
• The Solana Foundation is a non-profit on a mission to help build the most censorship resistant network possible.

Contact Edgevana, via:

• Chat, at the lower right corner of this page or with this link
• Open a Support Ticket
• Email us at solsupport@edgevana.com
• If you have purchased Enhanced Support, call us at +1-760-260-9329

Contact Edgevana, via:

• Chat, at the lower right corner of this page or with this link
• Open a Support Ticket
• Email us at solsupport@edgevana.com
• If you have purchased Enhanced Support, call us at +1-760-260-9329

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.

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

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

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:

• Chat, at the lower right corner of this page or with this link
• Open a Support Ticket
• Email us at solsupport@edgevana.com
• If you have purchased Enhanced Support, call us at +1-760-260-9329

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:

• Chat, at the lower right corner of this page or with this link
• Open a Support Ticket
• Email us at solsupport@edgevana.com
• If you have purchased Enhanced Support, call us at +1-760-260-9329

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:

• Chat, at the lower right corner of this page or with this link
• Open a Support Ticket
• Email us at solsupport@edgevana.com
• If you have purchased Enhanced Support, call us at +1-760-260-9329

I need hundreds of Mbps, so why can’t I use the full 2 Gbps pipe?

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.

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.

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.

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:

• @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
• @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
• @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
• IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
• Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
• It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.
• The fingerprint for the ED25519 key sent by the remote host is
• SHA256:wXT/g+Y90jH0tjvod+eGY6K68i17tRVzuBsZ5jfjnUc.
• Please contact your system administrator.
• Add correct host key in /Users/reggieb/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
• Offending ECDSA key in /Users/reggieb/.ssh/known_hosts:3
• Host key for 101.101.101.101 has changed and you have requested strict checking.
• Host key verification failed.
• You should create a backup of the file before we begin the workaround.