Dawn Labs Achieves 40% Reduction in Infrastructure Costs with Cherry Servers

Dawn Labs is a blockchain infrastructure company based in Japan. Founded in 2024, the company is committed to advancing the Solana validator ecosystem by running high-performance validator nodes, onboarding Japanese enterprises into decentralized networks, and leading proof-of-concept initiatives with telecom providers for the DoubleZero network.

Their mission is to build scalable and resilient validator infrastructure that meets the technical and governance demands of emerging Web3 networks.

The Challenge

Operating a top-performing Solana validator requires uncompromising hardware performance, low-latency I/O, and total control over the system environment—needs that virtualized cloud infrastructure simply cannot meet.

From the start, Dawn Labs ruled out hyperscale cloud providers due to:

• Inflexible hardware configurations;

• High pricing tied to bundled features;

• Performance degradation due to virtualization;

• Unexpected maintenance events affecting uptime.

Even among bare metal providers, they encountered roadblocks when trying to customize CPU models, disk layouts, and RAM types—ultimately hindering their ability to optimize and scale effectively.

Dawn Labs needed a partner that offered transparent, configurable, and performance-focused bare metal infrastructure—which led them to Cherry Servers.

The Solution

Cherry Servers provided Dawn Labs with the hardware-level control and flexibility critical for operating competitive Solana validators.

Their deployment strategy included:

• Primary voting nodes;

• Failover backup nodes;

• Benchmarking and testing environments.

Key advantages included:

• Seamless OS switching for kernel and system tuning;

• Access to AMD Threadripper CPUs for maximum single-thread performance;

• Precision customization of disk layouts (RAID-0 NVMe), ECC RAM, and networking parameters;

• Hourly billing, enabling benchmarking without long-term commitments.

This environment allowed Dawn Labs to iterate quickly, test validator configurations in real-world conditions, and optimize for Solana’s stringent performance requirements.

The Result

By migrating to Cherry Servers, Dawn Labs achieved measurable improvements in both performance and cost-efficiency:

• 40% reduction in infrastructure costs, including server rentals, bandwidth, and operational overhead;

• Validators now consistently rank in the top 50–100 globally across performance-based Solana staking pools such as Jito’s StakeNet;

• Maintained high vote credit rates, reliable block production, and strong uptime stability;

• Accelerated deployment cycles for new nodes and failover setups, improving operational agility.

Cherry Servers’ bare metal cloud infrastructure and 24/7 technical support from Web3 experts played a direct role in helping Dawn Labs scale competitively in one of the most demanding validator ecosystems in blockchain.

Dawn Labs strongly recommends Cherry Servers for infrastructure teams running high-performance blockchain workloads like Solana validators, with top 3 reasons to Choose Cherry Servers:

1. Outstanding performance-to-cost ratio, with generous bandwidth and transparent and flexible billing.

2. Deep understanding of Solana infrastructure needs, making high-performance validator operations sustainable. Technically competent and responsive support, enabling rapid deployments. 

3. Product offering that makes high-performance validator operation both accessible and sustainable.

“Our experience has been excellent. Cherry Servers gives us the flexibility, performance, and support we need to scale. We’re excited to continue growing our infrastructure as the Solana ecosystem evolves.” Yutaro Nagumo, CEO