Edgevana, a leader in powering the decentralized web, today announced that it has been chosen by the Solana Foundation to deploy 500 bare metal servers in 32 of Edgevana’s highly secure data center and colocation facilities worldwide.
The Solana community will have access to Edgevana’s product offering and customized software solutions for Validators which enhances the speed at which validators can get up and running.
“This partnership provides crypto enthusiasts seeking to deepen their support on the Solana blockchain best-in-class edge computing, securely positioned in enterprise-class facilities, anywhere, and at any time,” said Solana Foundation Executive Director Dan Albert. “Validators that use Edgevana for onboarding can reduce their hardware costs, have a pain-free and fast onboarding process, receive an affordable month-to-month contract, and scale without compromising security. ”
“Emerging technologies like blockchain demand what Edgevana’s edge computing and highly distributed data centers provide, the speed and horsepower of high-performance bare metal together with the increased network security, performance, and control needed for uncompromising scale,” said Mark Thiele, Co-Founder & CEO of Edgevana. “The solution that the Solana community is using considers the human behind the node, and strives to make a once cumbersome, time-consuming validator onboarding process simple and painless.”
Features provided to the Solana Community include:
- Node-ready, edge computing deployment at any of Edgevana’s thousands of enterprise-class data centers and colocation facilities.
- Guided assistance for crypto enthusiasts interested in becoming a Validator.
- A 24/7 customer service team that supports the Solana Validator community.
- An affordable month-to-month contract that provides flexibility and agility to add-on or relocate a node.
Validators will soon have the ability to pay in either Sol, or fiat. Read More HERE.
Edgevana is able to address the challenges that hyper-growth blockchains face as it relates to the onboarding of blockchain validators.
Edgevana understands that every decentralized blockchain network is different. Edgevana partners with Blockchain protocols to understand the needs of the network and the needs of their target validators, RPC operators, or miner audiences and creates specific global deployments in addition to customizing software to automate the life cycle of the validator communities.
