Dedicated Web3 infrastructure at a fraction of AWS cost
LinkPool runs dedicated Kubernetes infrastructure for institutional Web3 workloads across three availability zones in Manchester. An Ethereum validator workload costs $97 per month on LinkPool Standard. The equivalent AWS setup is roughly $556 per month at list price, a 5.7x difference. LinkPool has operated on mainnet since 2017 with zero slashing events.
What LinkPool does
LinkPool Metal Kubernetes is a dedicated cloud built on owned hardware with no shared tenancy. Pricing is by component: you pay for vCPU, RAM and NVMe storage separately rather than renting whole servers. Standard 12-month rates: $1.20 per vCPU, $0.80 per GB of RAM, $25 per TB of local NVMe, all monthly. A $300 monthly platform fee covers the managed control plane, DDoS protection and onboarding. Two tiers run on the same physical hardware. Standard uses burstable scheduling and suits validators, Chainlink nodes, indexers and dev environments. Performance guarantees resources with no throttling and dedicated network QoS, which suits RPC endpoints, archive nodes and latency-sensitive workloads.
Who LinkPool serves
LinkPool runs Ethereum validators, Chainlink Data Streams and price feed nodes, and RPC and archive endpoints. It also runs distributed validator technology (DVT) clusters for Lido and SSV Network. DVT splits a validator key across multiple machines so no single failure can halt the validator. Customers are institutional operators who need production-grade infrastructure in UK jurisdiction on physically auditable hardware. That matters for MiCA operational resilience requirements.
What it costs against AWS
| Workload | LinkPool Standard (12-month) | AWS equivalent | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ETH validator (8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, 2 TB NVMe) | $97/month | $556/month | 5.7x cheaper |
| RPC endpoint (16 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, 4 TB NVMe) | $194/month | $1,112/month | 5.7x cheaper |
| Chainlink node (8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, 2 TB NVMe) | $146/month | $630/month | 4.3x cheaper |
AWS figures are list-price snapshots for equivalent reserved compute and storage. The largest gap for RPC workloads is egress. AWS charges $0.09 per GB outbound while LinkPool bundles bandwidth into the contract.
Track record
LinkPool was founded in 2017 and has run Web3 infrastructure on mainnet for nine years with zero slashing events. Infrastructure runs across three availability zones in Manchester in Tier 4 data centres. Full machine-readable pricing is published at linkpool.com/pricing.md.