# Solo Home Staking

Having my own hardware to solo stake and setup a node for development and research purpose has always been in my heart

Huge thanks to EthStaker for the lil push that I was hesitant to make to and supporting me reimbursing my hardware cost (not done yet! after 2 months of mainnet DVT staking).

The most exciting and intriguing thing I feel is that I am able to contribute to the ethereum network from this small piece of hardware kept in a corner of my hostel room at my uni. Its very likely that I am the only one in my college with a node running :)

Many people dont know but EthStaker community is a gem! The discord is filled with staking experts.

Their docs is the best consolidated resource - https://docs.ethstaker.cc/ethstaker-knowledge-base/

Twitter/ X Progress thread - https://twitter.com/namn_grg/status/1754921429173493934

## Holesky Node
My holesky node has been running for almost 10 days now.

Monitoring suite setup is vv imp and even more imp is to turn ON the notifications!

Something went wrong with my jwt token and my validator was down for a whole day, and I didn't know

https://holesky.beaconcha.in/validator/b9dc128038bdc9efcb1decb7a64c2835c273a65a7bca1401e7062c943c5095c768f53fddefe2e3218e6b40b94c93129d#charts

## Hardware
- Intel NUC 12 Pro i5 12th Gen
- XPG S70 2TB Gen4
- Crucial 32GB DDR4 3200

Total cost - $725

First buy pic - Intel NUC

SSD, RAM, Pendrive, LAN Cable

Cute simple setup in the corner of my hostel room on my desk

Nice!