Decide whom to buy NC from and apply for resources
Try finding a provider of NC with decent presence in the US wrt network capacity, latency.
Ask for $monetary-resources for a test period of 6 months for buying NC for evaluation.
The ask for Hetzner is probably 10 EUR/month for the size of instance we'd want.
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