Finally (re)launched my own Bitcoin Full Node and Public Electrum Service!

Hi Everyone,

So, it was till back in 2020 I last ran a node. It was painful to run on HDD as initial sync was taking too much time. When I decided to run that again a few days ago, I came across a youtuber, which gave an awesome trick to shorten the sync time, by moving "indexes" and "chainstate" folder to your OS drive (SSD) temporarily and creating the symlinks of them in main data folder. That really shortened the sync time by almost 70 percent! I used this trick on Fulcrum (The most performant Electrum Server Implementation) too, and it shortened the sync time to 72 hours, where it took almost half a month for my computer!

Now some would argue that I should've put both the data directories completely in SSD, but SSDs are still very expensive in my country (India), especially above 1 TB. So, this was the best I could do and I couldn't be happier.

After the initial sync I removed the symlinks and put the folders back, while increasing the cache memory of both softwares. I also increased the number of rpc workers to 128 in Bitcoin Core, which would have also contributed to fast-sync in Fulcrum, as otherwise, there were a lot of "bitcoind disconnected" messages between block processing.

Also, you guys are welcome to connect to my Electrum server: srv01.technovanti.com:775:s (SSL)