@johnsmith - Many thanks for such valuable points! We will have in a day or two fully operational master node with no faucet for now. Parallel with this we are also boosting Steem Nodes in Thailand, so kinda hands are busy, but Ross ( @britcoins ) will tomorrow go step by step through your lovely guide and will provide some feedback on it definitely :)
Yeah, btw timing was accidental. We had plan to start this a month ago, but seems like it turns out its better we are a bit late :)
Cheers
Lucifer