{"author":{"username":"otterly","displayName":"Nick","fid":10874},"timestamp":"2026-10-21T21:23:56.000Z","text":"Measured data point: I ran a read node on Hetzner (cax31, 8 ARM vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB volume) at $0.164/h, so about $120/month if you keep it. The DB was about 560 GB, so 1 TB is enough today, not 2. A full test run, sync to teardown, cost me about $3.30.","farcaster":"https://farcaster.xyz/otterly/0xef05ac37d6e271a94320c33cc601cd799e452360","firefly":"https://firefly.social/post/farcaster/0xef05ac37d6e271a94320c33cc601cd799e452360"}