I have been pondering this for quite a while and I have seen other pools gain competitiveness by having multiple pools with lower fees. I want to remain competitive and at the same time encourage decentralization with having bare metal servers in house. My plan now is to launch ANP and ANP2 with 2% fees for the main net if the pledge mechanism will allow for this to be competitive. The following hardware should be here in a week or so:
Ryzen 3900x (12 cores)
Gigabyte MB with support for ECC RAM
64GB of 2667 ECC RAM
Mellanox Connectx 4 Network card (I really love this card for its network performance vs price)
Fractal Cabinet (More air flow and less silent than my other server but if its too noisy I will switch to water cooling)
2 TB PNY CS3030 NVME
500MB PNY CS3030 NVME
I have not decided yet if I will run both pools from main server and all extra nodes on the other or one pool on each of the servers but will test out models as we approach main net and during performance testing of haskel nodes.
![AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Prosessor Prosessorer](https://www.komplett.no/img/p/800/1132197.jpg)
![Fractal Design Meshify C light TG Midi tower](https://www.komplett.no/img/p/2400/982151.jpg)
![Crucial DDR4 2666 MHz 16GB ECC Minnebrikker](https://www.komplett.no/img/p/800/989579.jpg)
Crucial ECC memory
![PNY XLR8 CS3030 M.2 PCIe NVMe intern SSD, 1 TB](https://www.elkjop.no/image/dv_web_D180001002212065/23720/pny-xlr8-cs3030-m2-pcie-nvme-intern-ssd-1-tb.jpg?$prod_all4one$)
PNY CS3030 OVER 3000TBW so very enduring
![Gigabyte X570 Gaming X hovedkort](https://www.elkjop.no/image/dv_web_D180001002257762/46529/gigabyte-x570-gaming-x-hovedkort.jpg?$fullsize$)
MB is not as good as other server but i got a good deal for it and I have been using it on another computer at my home so I know it is solid and also it had the required ECC support needed for a server.
![Mellanox MCX4111A-XCAT ConnectX-4 Lx EN Network Interface Card 10GbE Single-Port SFP28 PCIe3.0 x8 ROHS R6](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-uxkkta8o/images/stencil/500x659/products/5545/8549/ConnectX-4-Lx-Single-Port-SFP28_edited__11956.1516309505.png?c=2&imbypass=on)
Mellanox ConnectX 4 a fantastic network card now I have one for each of the servers.
![Fractal Design ION+ 760W Platinum](https://www.netonnet.no/GetFile/ProductImagePrimary/datakomponenter/stromforsyning/modular/fractal-design-ion-760w-platinum(1011114)_376718_12_Normal_Extra.jpg)
Fractal Design ION+ a 760 Platinum power supply (important for power effiency that keeps running costs down.)