# \[ON HOLD\] HIP-18: allowlist for external leaders **URL:** \ **Category:** Validator DAO\ **Created:** [October 12, 2021, 10:19pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/on-hold-hip-18-allowlist-for-external-leaders/4329 "2021-10-12T22:19:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![FortuneValidator](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/fortunevalidator/32/2161_2.png) [@FortuneValidator](https://talk.harmony.one/u/FortuneValidator)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 6:59am UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/on-hold-hip-18-allowlist-for-external-leaders/4329/61 "2022-04-29T06:59:45Z")
Would this sufice: [Dedicated Root Server Hosting - Hetzner Online GmbH](https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax161) Its a fraction lower with 32core but higher ram. Has there been any decision on incentives to run one? Given the requirements high and price of ONE low, it may be hard to find enough volunteers. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherOne](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/brotherone/32/3464_2.png) [@BrotherOne](https://talk.harmony.one/u/BrotherOne)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2022, 10:08pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/on-hold-hip-18-allowlist-for-external-leaders/4329/62 "2022-05-02T22:08:48Z")
yea that’s a heavy bill to run the leader node on Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![leo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/leo/32/21_2.png) [@leo](https://talk.harmony.one/u/leo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2022, 6:04pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/on-hold-hip-18-allowlist-for-external-leaders/4329/63 "2022-05-03T18:04:18Z")
very reasonable ask. we will come up with the incentive plan. ---
**Author:** ![Legion](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/legion/32/2010_2.png) [@Legion](https://talk.harmony.one/u/Legion)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/on-hold-hip-18-allowlist-for-external-leaders/4329/64 "2022-05-03T20:27:50Z")
Hi Leo couple of questions 1. Is the 10G network a absolute requirement or can go as minimum of 1G network? 2. What is the typical normal monthly bandwidth use of a Leader node, 10TB, 20TB, … ? 3. What is the absolute minimum CPU cores allowed to go? Fortune for ex mentioned one server with 32c or it can go even lower like 28c ? Thank you and also interested on the incentive plan ---
**Author:** ![leo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/leo/32/21_2.png) [@leo](https://talk.harmony.one/u/leo)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/on-hold-hip-18-allowlist-for-external-leaders/4329/65 "2022-05-06T17:18:00Z")
1. 10G is not an absolute requirement, if you have a dedicated 1G, it might be okay. But I don’t have any field testing data, as we are mostly using AWS, which has 10G as the server side bandwidth. 2. Monthly bandwidth for a leader node should be higher than a normal validator node. Noted, to put your node in the allowlist doesn’t mean you will be the leader all the time. In most cases, it won’t be the leader unless in extreme cases, the internal leaders are rotated to the allowlist one. However, this is the first step to prepare for a fully decentralized network for external leaders. We also plan to do leader rotation after that. 3. 28c shall also work as it is not really the hard bottleneck. What I put there is because of the fixed configuration in AWS. ---
**Author:** ![BoxedCloud](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/talk.harmony.one/boxedcloud/32/861_2.png) [@BoxedCloud](https://talk.harmony.one/u/BoxedCloud)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2022, 3:46pm UTC](https://talk.harmony.one/t/on-hold-hip-18-allowlist-for-external-leaders/4329/66 "2022-05-23T15:46:01Z")
> [@leo](#): > > okay We do have a 1Gbps dedicated line in our datacenter and we meet all of the other specifications. Below is our BLS key on testnet shard 0: ca06101eb8aa410d53c7b9cad494f5fae32f4b2ea083b4389af629aacf0d1996e6fca43a2ea7c7c89f6e131c1c35a704 We would help to assist with this testing. Thank you for the opportunity! [Previous page](https://talk.harmony.one/t/on-hold-hip-18-allowlist-for-external-leaders/4329.md?page=3)