# Requirements

### Minimum CAPS requirements

The minimum amount of CAPS required to run a validator on Ternoa is **150 000 CAPS**.

### Hardware Recommendations

For the **minimum** specification, we recommend:

* 2 core machine (with a newish server CPU)
* 4 GB DDR4/DDR5 ECC RAM
* 80GB SSD storage.

For **optimal** server we recommend:

* 4 core machine (with a newish server CPU)
* 4GB DDR4/DDR5 ECC RAM
* 160GB SSD storage.

It’s implied that using a slower or older server CPU might not produce desired results.

Besides server grade equipment, using newish Intel i3 series or AMD Ryzen 3 series CPUs would be more than sufficient to run our node.

### Machine Examples <a href="#machine-examples" id="machine-examples"></a>

| **Provider**  | **Configuration**                                                                                               | **Price**       |
| ------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------- |
| Scaleway      | <p>DEV1-M Development machine: </p><ul><li>3 cores</li><li>4GB RAM</li><li>100GB local storage</li></ul>        | \~$16 per month |
| Digital Ocean | <p>Basic plan droplet; Regular Intel with SSD</p><ul><li>2 cores</li><li>4GB RAM</li><li>80GB SSD</li></ul>     | \~$20 per month |
| Digital Ocean | <p>Basic plan droplet; Premium AMD with SSD </p><ul><li>2 cores</li><li>4GB RAM</li><li>80GB NVMe SSD</li></ul> | \~$24 per month |
| Vultr         | <p>SSD Could Instance </p><ul><li>2 cores</li><li>4GB RAM</li><li>80GB SSD</li></ul>                            | \~$20 per month |