1. A Unix OS

2. Docker and Docker Compose LTS

There are several million transactions on the Arweave chain. In order to effectively serve content on the gateway you'll need a decent sized computer. The ideal specs for a Gateway should have the following:

1. 16GB RAM (ideally 32GB RAM)

2. ~100GB of SSD storage available

3. Intel i5 / AMD FX or greater, +4 vCPUs should be more than enough, these are typically Intel Xeon CPUs.

This guide is designed to use Docker Compose. There is also the development version of the guide, that you can review here.

Also make sure to read the Snapshot Guide to expedite the synchronization process for your Gateway.

By default, there is a default environment you can use located at .env.docker in the repository.

ARWEAVE_NODES=["..."]

DATABASE_HOST=postgres
DATABASE_PORT=5432
DATABASE_USER=arweave
DATABASE_PASSWORD=arweave
DATABASE_NAME=arweave

ENVIRONMENT=public
PORT=3000

PARALLEL=4
SNAPSHOT=0

INDICES=["App-Name", "app", "domain", "namespace"]

Make sure you copy this configuration to .env.

cp .env.docker .env

You can start the server with docker-compose.

# with npm
npm run docker:start

# with yarn
yarn docker:start

# with pure docker-compose
docker-compose up --build -d

You can spin down the docker-compose cluster with.

# with npm
npm run docker:stop

# with yarn
yarn docker:stop

# with pure docker-compose
docker-compose down -v

You can test if the server and the GraphQL queries are working properly by navigating to.

http://localhost:3000/graphql

This webpage should look similar to.

https://arweave.dev/graphql