oh I see, this would be at a datacenter right? I realised I needed to install ubuntu because the server version is headless, and that's kinda pointless on a laptop.

For my needs, a local home server is fine. In fact, I want to just tinker around and actually download the node at least once first, try out lighting intergrations like BTCPay etc.

I'm also paying for the servers, two at the moment, so I really want to reduce my costs.

I currently have a relay running at a datacenter, using strfry. wss//nostr.sovrgn.co.za