Anyone on here running umbrel give me any pros and cons?
Discussion
Pro: Umbrel apps get timely updates.
Pros: easy to use
Cons: not as flexible as bare metal, also docker sucks
Why does Docker suck?
Pros:
- Tons of services!
- You can run it on portainer or add portainer on the Umbrel
- Cloudflare Tunnel makes it fairly easy to host dervices on the clearnet. They also now have NGINX, but I haven't tried it yet.
- Mealie recipe management can help you save sats on groceries.
- You can run it on a VM.
Cons:
- Backups are not easy.
- The official Umbrel hardware is limited to 2 TB of M.2 SSD. Start9 has up to 4 TB.
-16 GB of RAM compared 32 GB on Start9.
If Umbrel increases storage on the hardware, I'll buy one. I also thought about getting a 32GB mini computer and adding a 4 TB hard drive, but I'm getting to the point where I should just get a rack.