"syncing": true - New deployment Guardian Node on google cloud doesn't sync or syncs extremely slow

[texmason]

I've installed the guardian node through google cloud market place.
I've followed the instructions line by line, which says it should take 10 - 15 minutes.
It's been several hours and "syncing": is still TRUE.

How many hours or days should I expect to wait. How do I know if things are syncing properly. Should I be expecting the current epoch or height to reach a certain level to know I'm synced?

[texmason]

sylvester@theta-guardian-mdao-tr-vm:~$ thetacli query status
{
"address": "0x729FB6FBA5ae7b850EAC267d9aD29d38bb9Da4Eb",
"chain_id": "mainnet",
"current_epoch": "9145989",
"current_height": "9072360",
"current_time": "1612293383",
"latest_finalized_block_epoch": "9143054",
"latest_finalized_block_hash": "0xc65eab8fcef534c4419f040aee6b36baa78dc2a4a67c0e7c90872620ecd0da02",
"latest_finalized_block_height": "9069445",
"latest_finalized_block_time": "1612272637",
"peer_id": "0x729FB6FBA5ae7b850EAC267d9aD29d38bb9Da4Eb",
"syncing": true