Great. Thanks a lot for your reply. Now all I need is a set of simple instructions, a tutorial, on how to put up a node. Hardware and software requirements, setup, options, maintenance, ... Basic stuff :)
Maybe I've missed it and it's already out there? I mean a recent one. Heck, there should be an officially sanctioned tutorial someplace on steem.io site.
It's right in the repo:
https://github.com/steemit/steem/blob/master/doc/quickstart.md