Solana joins Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Robinhood Chain, TRON, Bitcoin, and Hyperliquid on Chainstack Self-Hosted’s growing protocol list. Same workflow as every other protocol on the platform: pick Solana in the deployment wizard, pick your network, deploy.
With Solana Mainnet and Devnet now added, Chainstack Self-Hosted supports 30 protocols across 60 network deployments (protocol + network combinations). Full catalog: supported clients and protocols.
What ships
- Non-voting RPC nodes on the Agave client, for both Mainnet and Devnet
- Snapshot-based bootstrap, so you’re not syncing from genesis
- The same lifecycle management every Self-Hosted node gets — health checks, updates, self-healing, endpoint exposure — through the Control Panel or
cpctl
Validator support is on the roadmap, following the same pattern as other protocols on the platform.
| Network | Client | vCPU | RAM | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mainnet | Agave v4.2.0 | 16 | 256 GiB | ~3.5 TB |
| Devnet | Agave v4.2.0 | 8 | 64 GiB | ~2.2 TB |
Both networks bootstrap from a pre-built snapshot — plan for ~2× the storage figure above during deploy, since the compressed archive and the extracted state briefly coexist. Full specs, ports, and every other supported protocol: Supported clients and protocols.
One thing to get right: the hardware
Solana is less forgiving of undersized infrastructure than most chains we support. The Agave client’s own requirements call for real hardware — high clock-speed CPUs, up to 512 GB of RAM once account indexing is enabled, and accounts/ledger split across separate NVMe drives. Undersize any of these and a node doesn’t slow down gracefully — it falls behind and stays behind.
You don’t have to source that hardware cold. Chainstack Self-Hosted ships pre-installed on several trusted infrastructure partners — pick one, order, and the Control Panel is already there when the server boots:
- Velia — 80% off servers with code
ChainstackSH80 - HOSTKEY — Chainstack Self-Hosted available pre-installed
- Vultr — available as a one-click Marketplace app
- BreezeHost — 50% off servers with code
CHAINSTACK50 - Serverside — 10% off servers with Chainstack Self-Hosted
Get started
Solana on Chainstack Self-Hosted is available now. Check out the supported clients and protocols page for specs, or the system requirements if you’re sizing hardware.