Glad you agree on API nodes because that is actually what my post was about. :-)

That's my bad, I know you run your witness on a workstation and assumed it was the same thing.

Hive has enough witnesses (although more is always better) but does not have enough API nodes because people think they are very expensive to run.

I disagree, we have far fewer witnesses than we did on Steem and very few who really know anything more than getting the witness up and running, which is just following some instructions and typing in a few commands.

The specs required to run a witness node are so low these days that you can run a backup witness on a 9 year old laptop (admittedly with 8Gb RAM and 500Gb NVME SSD and i7 4 core - my old Macbook Pro was a beast in its day).

Sure if you don't mind missing blocks, oh and I know the answer is going to be "But I haven't", performance of a top 100 witness is vastly difference than the requirements of a top 20, the higher you get the more demanding it is.