Thank you for this update. While I'm new to SteemIt, I did find it interesting to read this "behind-the-scenes" post. I couldn't help noticing that the block size in your link was ~63 Giga-Bytes, while in all sorts of "running a node" tutorials from a year+ ago, it's much smaller. Wouldn't this sort of growth influence people's ability to run a node (at least a "cloud based" one)?
More on that subject in my Steem Pressure series :-)
Yes, as we grow it would be harder to run nodes on a random hardware.
At the beginning there were people trying to adapt Steem nodes to RaspberryPi. ;-)
But that's ok. Nobody expect nowadays to run Wikipedia backend on a homegrown PC.
Oh yes, there is indeed more on that subject in your Steem Pressure series 🤓
Thank you for the answer and reference