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I am still considering a Hive witness, but still haven’t made the final decision to spend the money on the machine or now. I want to self-host vs us a VPS

Self hosting rules...

If you have a place with stable internet, then any modern CPU with at least 32GB of DDR5, and then 2 TB of disk (does not need to be NVMe) - or you can use a small NVMe for the OS and then a 1-2TB disk for the blockchain.

Done!

Already got my machine in my sights. Just waiting for some extra funds to come in.