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Mention monitoring and updating for exchanges (#12953)

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* Mention monitoring and updating for exchanges

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Co-authored-by: Tyera Eulberg <teulberg@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Trent Nelson <trent.a.b.nelson@gmail.com>

* Apply suggestions from code review

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Co-authored-by: Tyera Eulberg <teulberg@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Trent Nelson <trent.a.b.nelson@gmail.com>
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@@ -32,6 +32,33 @@ Here are our recommendations for low, medium, and high end machine specification
| Accounts Drive\(s\) | None | Samsung 970 Pro 1TB | 2x Samsung 970 Pro 1TB | |
| GPU | Nvidia 1660ti | Nvidia 2080 Ti | 2x Nvidia 2080 Ti | Any number of cuda-capable GPUs are supported on Linux platforms. |
## Virtual machines on Cloud Platforms
While you can run a validator on a cloud computing platform, it may not
be cost-efficient over the long term.
However, it may be convenient to run non-voting api nodes on VM instances for
your own internal usage. This use case includes exchanges and services built on
Solana.
In fact, the offical mainnet-beta API nodes are currently (Oct. 2020) run on GCE
`n1-standard-32` (32 vCPUs, 120 GB memory) instances with 2048 GB SSD for
operational convenience.
For other cloud platforms, select instance types with similar specs.
Also note that egress internet traffic usage may turn out to be high,
especially for the case of running staked validators.
## Docker
Running validator for live clusters (including mainnet-beta) inside Docker is
not recommended and generally not supported. This is due to concerns of general
docker's containerzation overhead and resultant performance degradation unless
specially configured.
We use docker only for development purpose.
## Software
- We build and run on Ubuntu 18.04. Some users have had trouble when running on Ubuntu 16.04