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# Solana dedicated nodes

Single-tenant bare-metal Solana nodes for Dragon's Mouth gRPC streaming: when to choose dedicated over shared, regions, ordering, and billing.

Dedicated nodes give you isolated capacity for gRPC streaming, with no noisy neighbors. The monthly price of a standard node includes Dragon's Mouth gRPC streaming. Other services, including WebSocket, are billed separately, per usage.

On request, we can also provision other single-purpose clusters (for example, a dedicated DAS or a custom indexing cluster) or enable Geyser plugins. Mixed-purpose nodes (e.g. JSON-RPC + gRPC streaming) are not offered.

## Use cases

* **Sustained gRPC streaming** at high volume, where a fixed price is a priority.
* **Heavy indexing workloads** (DAS/History, on request) that require full, uncontended throughput.
* **Latency-sensitive backends** that require colocation with the data source for predictable speed and low jitter.

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## Features and benefits

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><i class="fa-gauge-high">:gauge-high:</i> <strong>Custom rate limits</strong></td><td>We can customize your rate limits to suit your workload. Contact support to review them.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><i class="fa-globe">:globe:</i> <strong>Your choice of region</strong></td><td>North America, Europe, or Asia Pacific, so you can colocate your backend next to the node.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><i class="fa-user-shield">:user-shield:</i> <strong>Logging-policy control</strong></td><td>Pick the logging policy your legal or privacy requirements demand: Max Privacy, Enhanced Privacy (default), or GDPR Privacy.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td><i class="fa-arrows-rotate">:arrows-rotate:</i> <strong>Automatic failover</strong></td><td>If your node goes down, traffic fails over to shared backup nodes by default. Reconnect your gRPC client to resume the stream, and again when your node returns.</td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Shared vs dedicated

|                  | Shared infrastructure                                                                                                               | Dedicated node                                                                                                                                               |
| ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Tenancy          | Multi-tenant                                                                                                                        | Single-tenant, bare metal                                                                                                                                    |
| Geo-distribution | On standard mainnet endpoints: 8 cities on 3 continents, routed to the nearest in network terms via Anycast                         | One region of your choice: North America, Europe, or Asia Pacific                                                                                            |
| Auto-failover    | Yes, across data centers                                                                                                            | Yes, to shared backup nodes by default. Reconnect your stream                                                                                                |
| Rate limits      | Flexible, adjustable on request. Rate limits do not affect pricing                                                                  | Can be customized for your workload. Contact support to review them                                                                                          |
| Billing          | Pay-as-you-go (prepaid deposit, valid 12 months, usable across all services) or invoiced. See [pricing](https://triton.one/pricing) | Fixed monthly price per node. Includes Dragon's Mouth gRPC streaming with no overage fees. WebSocket, Fumarole and JSON-RPC are billed separately, per usage |
| JSON-RPC reads   | Served by shared RPC backends                                                                                                       | Routed to the shared cluster and billed separately, per usage                                                                                                |
| WebSocket        | Served by shared WebSocket servers                                                                                                  | Served by shared WebSocket servers by default                                                                                                                |

Compare your monthly streaming cost with a node's fixed price on the [pricing page](https://triton.one/pricing). For how shared and dedicated billing works, see [Plans and billing](/account-and-billing/plans-and-billing.md#shared-or-dedicated).

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Pair a dedicated node with shared endpoints: dedicated for gRPC streaming, shared for JSON-RPC and transaction sending.
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## Getting started

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### Talk to us

Reach out through [contact sales](https://triton.one/contact), and we'll talk through your options with you.

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### Scope your node

After learning your streaming volume and preferred region, we'll agree on the specs and the number of nodes to deploy.
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### Provisioning

Hardware is ordered to spec and set up as a dedicated subscription in your [customer dashboard](https://customers.triton.one).
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### Connect

Your node has its own endpoint, listed in the [customer dashboard](https://customers.triton.one), for example `https://<your-endpoint>.mainnet.rpcpool.com`. Point your gRPC client at it, and you're good to go!
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## Best practices

* **Put your Dragon's Mouth gRPC traffic on the dedicated endpoint.** gRPC streams on a shared endpoint are metered, which defeats the point of a fixed-price node.
* **Run your backend close to the node.** gRPC streams are backend-to-backend, so keeping both in the same region reduces latency.
* **Filter to cut volume.** Server-side filters (skip votes, restrict to the accounts and programs you care about) reduce the bandwidth you pull and help you stay on the chain tip under load. See [streaming best practices](/solana/real-time-streaming/best-practices.md).

## What's next

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><i class="fa-radio">:radio:</i> <strong>Dragon's Mouth gRPC</strong></td><td>Sub-slot real-time updates for accounts, transactions, slots, and blocks via gRPC.</td><td><a href="/solana/real-time-streaming/dragon-s-mouth-grpc.md">Dragon's Mouth gRPC</a></td></tr><tr><td><i class="fa-list-check">:list-check:</i> <strong>Best practices</strong></td><td>Filtering, reconnect, and commitment guidance across the streaming services.</td><td><a href="/solana/real-time-streaming/best-practices.md">Real-time streaming best practices</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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