Ideal Hardware for YaCy

What features should you look for if you are creating a build with YaCy in mind?
Why would these features be of use?
Which are the most important ones?

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That would depend upon what you aim to be doing. Are you crawling a lot? Are you getting a lot of search queries? Generally YaCy can be pretty vertically scalable just by giving it more of everything and anything.

“If I were to make a build for YaCy I’d run a decent even if modest number of processor cores, as much DDR4 as prices will let me get away with, and a really big hard drive to be able to index more.”

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For one to three website a small VPS can be enough, for more than a million page a dedicated server could be a good investment.

either use a disc which does not share IO with other applications or use a SSD

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