The community has really stepped it up and made it as easy as possible. Shout-out to Gamma, David Feder, DipSlayer and many others producing media and code to on-board to the network.
I’ve got a ton of video content, scripts and guide as well.
Depends on a lot of factors including # of validators you plan to run (vs how much/long you plan to stake HEX), whether you run validators in the cloud (advantages, but costs are monthly instead of one-time + utilities with home validators) and how many validators join the network and lower the APR over time.
Check out this video on some cost comparisons (and I’ve got plenty more clips on the channel on validating, just search rhmax validator)