Hardware specs and network configs for running a top tier solana rpc node dedicated to heavy traffic

Handling production RPC loads requires a single socket AMD EPYC with at least 512GB ECC RAM to maintain secondary account indexes. Separating the ledger and accounts into distinct high IOPS enterprise NVMe drives stops intense serialization from choking your disks. A dedicated 10Gbps unmetered pipe paired with direct sysctl UDP buffer expansion prevents dropped packets during peak meme volume.