Pi4 8 GB is syncing a Fulcrum electrum server again after a db corruption. It's been syncing for over a week, and is currently at 94%.
Just started syncing Fulcrum on a real server with 10 year old hardware, started it about 15 minutes ago.
Which will complete first? If I was a betting man (and I am), I'd guess the latter.
Depends on the drive
I gave up on Fulcrum on the pi after weeks of trying.
Pretty sure it won’t even work on a 4GB Pi 4
It’s worth getting one setup though, especially if you have deep wallets. Nothing comes close to its performance.
Real server will definitely win, cannot hate Pi's enough for practically any Bitcoin-related purposes.
So bad.
be like me, stop using shitty Pi's and buy cheaper and more powerful refurbished x86 desktops on Amazon
This Pi is my first bitcoin node I ever built myself, going on two years. I bought it for dirt cheap because they were cheap AF back then.
It's done well for me, but I'm slowly moving things over to my home lab that's running Proxmox (OS that specializes in containers/VMs) so that I can use better hardware, and have reliable backups.
You are better off just using Docker directly, You will waste a lot of resources running VM's . I dockerize everything . You can use Cockpit to manage all of the containers on different hosts or PiCluster https://git.poster.place/verita84/picluster
Proxmox runs containers as well which are very light on resources compared to VMs. That's what I primarily use, and it has worked very well for me so far.
Literally just upgraded from a pi to an old Lenovo that’s running proxmox with mynode in a container
Proxmox is awesome
Yeah first time using it! Are you planning on setting up a relay in a separate container or just your node?
I got the relay automated in Docker if you decide to run a relay
https://git.poster.place/verita84/nostr/src/branch/main/README.md
I’m wondering if I should build a separate device for my relay or do you think it’s fine in a container in proxmox
Not entirely sure what all I will put on it. Likely not a relay as I don't plan on exposing this server to the internet.
Right now it's running a file server, media server (Jellyfin), and now a Fulcrum electrum server (pointed at my raspiblitz).
Not currently running bitcoind or lightning on it.
Yeah that’s my concern but doesn’t each container in proxmox have a separate ip?
You only have to expose the port for containers
Right. How do you access each container? Do you use Tailscale to access remotely and assign a domain to the Tailscale IP for each TS ip?
Dunno what any of that is. Why not just user regular docker and keep it simple? Docker can use host ip to forward
I’m a complete newb when it comes to code/ vm/ containers. How do I user a docker?
Those Dell thin clients are going cheaper than Pi's on eBay. I got one fully refurb'ed for $45. It's a pretty nice little machine.
Pi is currently at 95.3%, while the Proxmox container on old hardware is at 61%. My prediction looking good so far.
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Update: I didn't provision enough storage on the new server and it crashed from running out of space at 99% complete. Having to start all over again this morning.
Meanwhile the Pi4 is chugging along at 98.1% complete!
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