A place for talking about the Ethereum Virtual Machine on Farcaster.

How much does it cost to index a whole evm chain? Rough estimate is fine

I know its probably insane but am super curious

Indexing Ethereum https://indexsupply.com

Support email: support@indexsupply.com

don't take my casts seriously please (most of them at least)

I run @indexsupply on a single, very good server. I'm indexing 10+ chains and have over 12TB of data indexed. I keep a second, not-as-good server for a backup. It doesn't have to be expensive.

The drives are what is expensive atm, 4tb nvme ssds are like $200-300 a pop and you likely want 2 if you don't wanna risk one dying and having to reindex everything. From there the specs for the machine to run a full node are pretty small ( see https://reth.rs/installation/installation.html)

But the main cost is going to come from your ETL after this, ie if you want to keep real time balances or contract data you will need to do actions on every block and store the data. Eth is pretty slow block times but the others are not, also gotta account for reorgs and things.

Overall cost to have all the data is not so high but it depends on what you wanna do after that, that part could be costly!