ERPC Sends Email to Members Announcing a 24-Hour Limited Free One-Day VPS Trial Following Platform Renewal

ELSOUL LABO B.V. (Headquarters: Amsterdam, Netherlands; CEO: Fumitake Kawasaki), together with Validators DAO, which operates ERPC, has sent an email to ERPC members announcing a 24-hour limited free one-day VPS trial, following recent platform-level infrastructure updates.

This trial can be activated via the link included in the email, allowing members to use a VPS (1 vCPU / 4GB RAM) for one day. The offer is available to existing ERPC members only and has been delivered to registered email addresses.

If you are already an ERPC member and wish to use the trial but did not receive the email, please contact support via a ticket. Your membership status will be confirmed and handled individually.
All inquiries are handled via the Validators DAO Official Discord.

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This trial is provided as an opportunity to compare your current VPS environment with ERPC’s VPS and observe differences in responsiveness and overall usage characteristics.

For use cases such as Solana-based applications, transaction processing, data ingestion, and real-time analytics, the numerical specifications listed on a VPS plan alone are insufficient to fully understand real-world behavior or operational impact. Even when selecting the same city or region, differences in data-center location, network paths, virtualization design, and CPU operating policies can directly affect processing outcomes and stability.

In practice, when using general-purpose cloud services or major VPS providers, selecting the same city—such as Frankfurt—often still results in round-trip latency of approximately 20–30 ms to major Solana platforms or validators. While this level of latency is generally considered fast enough for typical web applications, it can affect results in blockchain-focused workloads.

ERPC’s VPS instances are deployed in close proximity to network hubs where Solana validators and related infrastructure are concentrated, and are designed with intra-city network reachability as a core assumption. As a result, round-trip latency to major Solana nodes of 0.2 ms or less has been observed in real-world operation.

No special configuration or dedicated use case is required for this trial. By performing the same checks or workloads you normally run, you can directly observe differences between environments.

The VPS provided by ERPC is not designed under the same assumptions as general-purpose VPS offerings. This difference can often be observed even during short-term use.

Many VPS services are designed to support a wide range of workloads at low cost. As a result, CPU operation is often optimized for power efficiency, and physical resources are shared aggressively. While this approach is reasonable for web applications and general backend processing, it becomes a constraint for Solana workloads, where processing timing and responsiveness directly influence outcomes.

ERPC has systematically re-examined these common assumptions based on real Solana operations. Data centers are selected exclusively from locations where Solana validators and major nodes are densely concentrated. The network is built on the same, or extremely close, paths as ERPC’s own RPC, gRPC, and Shredstream infrastructure, minimizing reliance on external internet transit.

CPU operation is also not optimized for power efficiency or high consolidation. Instead, CPU generation selection and operating policies are determined based on maintaining strong single-thread performance and ensuring that this performance does not degrade under real workloads. For Premium VPS and SUPER VPS offerings, ERPC adopts a strict no-overcommit policy to maintain stable conditions regardless of time of day or neighboring workloads.

These choices do not prioritize short-term cost efficiency. They reflect sustained investment and design decisions made to achieve reproducible results in real operations. ERPC provides not an environment that merely looks good in benchmarks, but a foundation whose operating conditions remain consistent in day-to-day use.

ERPC publishes comparison results obtained under identical conditions across multiple execution environments, including cloud platforms. These comparisons cover CPU performance, memory behavior, storage I/O, and response characteristics. The following image shows one such example.

Validators DAO has released an open-source toolset, “Validators DAO Performance Testing Tools,” which enables Linux server performance to be measured and compared using identical procedures. These tools can be executed with a single command and serve as a common reference for comparing your current environment with others.

ERPC will continue to send emails with updates to members on an irregular basis, depending on infrastructure changes and service availability. Receiving these announcements requires an ERPC account.

For configuration details, availability, deployment consultation, or assistance with missing emails, please contact the Validators DAO Official Discord.