Celestia Light Node Performance Analysis

Umtay
3 min readMay 15, 2023

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This article is about my Celestia Light Node performance analysis. But what is Celestia?
Celestia is a new technology that powers, scales and secures Web3 applications. To achieve this, Celestia introduces a new modular blockchain architecture that solves the core scaling problems of today’s blockchains.

There are 4 types of nodes you can run in Celestia.
-Validator Node
-Light Node
-Bridge Node
-Full Storage Node


My analysis will be about Light Node.
I used Hetzner cx21 VPS server.

Server Features;
Ram: 4 GB
CPU: 2 (Intel)
Disk: 40 GB SSD
System: Ubuntu 20.04
Location: Helsinki

Firstly i will show you my 24 hr and 1 month usage.

Lets enter to our server by using terminal

Disk Usage

For disk usage use this code :

df -h

Bandwith Test

sudo apt install speedtest-cli
speedtest-cli

Monitoring system with HTOP

To reach system monitor :
sudo apt-get install htop
htop

This is my last 5 days of Bandwith Usage

vmstat -d

Average Traffic

vnstat -tr

You can see all details about my node. Thanks for reading.

0xUmut#0001

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