Yacy is where search needs to be. If the network grew by 1000 nodes this month that would be amazing. I have a node online which has indexed over 5m pages. I’ll need to increase disk space soon.
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How much does it cost every month to run
I run it at home in its own rate limited and sandboxed VLAN. The server paid for itself a while ago and work pays for the Internet. 🤙🏻 It’s Java, and I found anything below 16GB RAM impacts the performance a lot. Disk space depends on if you want to be a crawler or a consumer. Either way if your node can’t find it locally it will reach out to connected peers until it finds it.