Thanks, good info. Never had any problems with pfsense or opnsense with Intel server NICs personally. Other than being fried.

Same. Quad port Intel NIC.

I had no problems communicating a higher limit. They are not AWS but you can get 100s of instances.

EdgeRouter is proprietary but minimal. You can also look at Opnsense running on a used thin client off ebay.

I’m on LineageOS sans gapps, so not even Google Play available. If it’s not open source, it’s not there.

Why do you think it’s not worth it? What was your experience running it?

Do you think the Fediverse would scale to a 1:1000 instance to user ratio?