# Counterparty node in the cloud

**URL:** <https://forums.counterparty.io/t/counterparty-node-in-the-cloud/573>\
**Category:** Counterparty\
**Created:** [November 18, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/counterparty-node-in-the-cloud/573 "2014-11-18T02:00:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![xcpmaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc348/32.png) [@xcpmaven](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/xcpmaven)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/counterparty-node-in-the-cloud/573/1 "2014-11-18T02:00:03Z")

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I’m looking to set up a Counterparty node using a VPS - to do that I need a bitcoin node and counterpartyd?

So far I have Heroku set up with Toshi&nbsp;

  

  

I’m interested in running the bitcoin testnet to execute etherparty contracts&nbsp;

  

any input or advice is welcome&nbsp;

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**Author:** ![weex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/41988e/32.png) [@weex](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/weex)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 5:42am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/counterparty-node-in-the-cloud/573/2 "2014-11-18T05:42:08Z")

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Setup instructions are here: [http://counterparty.io/docs/build-system/](http://counterparty.io/docs/build-system/)

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**Author:** ![something](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/something/32/240_2.png) [@something](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/something)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2014, 10:03am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/counterparty-node-in-the-cloud/573/3 "2014-11-18T10:03:58Z")

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Suggested h/w specs can be found here:&nbsp;[http://counterparty.io/docs/build-system/federated-node/](http://counterparty.io/docs/build-system/federated-node/)

That’s for a commercial-grade setup. You definitively want a VPS with SSD storage and at least 1 CPU core and 8GB of RAM.

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**Author:** ![xcpmaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9fc348/32.png) [@xcpmaven](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/xcpmaven)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/counterparty-node-in-the-cloud/573/4 "2014-11-19T00:18:20Z")

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thank you

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**Author:** ![something](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/something/32/240_2.png) [@something](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/something)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 9:27am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/counterparty-node-in-the-cloud/573/5 "2014-11-19T09:27:27Z")

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If you want to get economical you could try in a local (VirtualBox, etc.) VM first to see how slow it is with 2 or 4 GB of RAM and then decide. But since most hosting companies allow resizing, that’s probably not necessary.&nbsp;