I'm doing it to learn and earn some non-kyc sats.

Commendable & awesome 😎 💗

i'm being conservative and aiming to pay my hosting fees by routing lightning payments but i suspect that i will be able to make nokyc sats running a lightning routing node too, i'm just staying conservative and not aiming too high to start, i'm new to this but i am almost certain that you can make back your routing costs on lighting node running