No, all these things are out of scope that can be discussed here. But you should figure this out by yourself because it will differ for every product you promote. For example, a full funnel will be very different if you promote fitness products or a heavenly tasty burger sauce, you get my point here?
Yes, it actually was big and with chrome profiles, there is a problem - you cant transfer them to another machine, they get encrypted against your hardware, at least I haven't found an option to do so. What I decided to do is to export all cookies(including storage, websql, etc), save them and then load them up when session needs to be restarted.
I light up a new browser profile, confirm google's tos and then try to act as human as possible with their tracking cookie enabled. Then I just extract those cookies and use them as I want. They can be even used to bypass recaptcha, a good cookie is considered when google gives you easiest challenge possible(checkbox) and your recaptcha score is 0.9.
For cookies warmup Puppeteer is more than enough.
Depends on what we see as a huge setup, now I have 3 machines working, the main server with 64 threaded CPU with 10% load is doing all the heavy lifting, I'm moving 'the brain' part that is responsible for all logic from my personal workstation to another Hetzner server with 12 threads but 4ghz cpu and nvme disks. My home workstation will be used only for engineering work and those two power horses are enough to scale everything even more than I'm planning to do in upcoming months. So only two high workload servers with approx total costs of 300 EUR/month.
No, not smart and for sure not very focused, I'm a total mess actually. I just decided to stop chasing clouds and started to focus on building one thing only. I still lose focus, now I haven't worked really focused for more than 2-3 weeks, just doing a lot of thinking, research, etc. I hope to get back on track this month, thus this journey thread was made.