Observed arrival · 2026-10-21
Townhall’s three-command Farcaster stack
A hands-on guide to provisioning a server, syncing a Snapchain read node, and serving your own Farcaster client.
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- Farcaster users willing to self-host
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- The demo-node measurements estimate roughly 22 hours from node setup to sync, with about 800 GB peak disk use.
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The guide provisions a Hetzner machine with shell scripts, starts Snapchain’s read node, then builds and serves the client over HTTPS; it also supplies PowerShell commands for Windows. Its demo measurements use a Hetzner cx43 in Falkenstein and Snapchain 0.14.3: the documented snapshot is about 445 GB compressed, peak disk use about 800 GB, and steady-state disk about 560 GB. A cleanup command is provided for testers.
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