Running a monero node (pruned) on a VPS

Note: The pruned node still needs ~50GB!

Downloading & installing

Monero distributes a tard set of binaries directly, which we will save into /opt.

In a root terminal:

mkdir -p /opt/monero
chown -R ubuntu:ubuntu /opt/monero

Then as regular user:

cd /tmp
wget https://downloads.getmonero.org/linux64
tar -xjvf linux64 --strip-components=1 -C /opt/monero

Run the node in prune mode:

(cd into /opt/monero first...)

./monerod --prune-blockchain --detach

You can check progress by tailing the log:

tail -f ~/.bitmonero/bitmonero.log