Curious about how to make this experiment sustainable?… The lowest suitable configuration I could price is approximately A$103/month before tax, using Netcup in Europe. AWS is around A$442/month before outbound bandwidth. Akash’s live estimator returned A$310/month. These are prices checked 18 October 2026. I used Snapchain’s documented requirements—4 CPU cores, 16 GB RAM, and 2 TB free storage—and priced 2 TiB of storage for comparison. These are infrastructure estimates; actual performance and network traffic still need a running-node test.