- 4 shared cores on a 2017-era 2ghz epyc is not enough for a relay. could probably tune some things to get it there—seeing significant overhead from userspace networking + logging—but i def want more performance margin than this. for $5.5CAD i can get two more shared cores, or double that for 8

good news! i was wrong! with a lot of patience and many hours coaxing each individual bluesky PDS server (80 of them) to sync up, this lil relay is now up, staying up, looking happy. thanks @jaz.bsky.social + @why.bsky.team for pointers. wait,, if bsky team helps, are we even decentralizing???