Replying to Avatar BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish

I've got an old ass i5 2500k (3.30ghz) with 8gb DDR3 running win7pro sp1. I'm sure I can scrounge up a spare 1TB ssd.

Is this sufficient to run both a Bitcoin and LN node on the same machine? Do I need to separate the LN node in any way? (ie seperate partition or VM)

Also... any way to leverage a NAS that's currently in-use as active backup? Would I be potentially putting personal data saved in the NAS at risk? What if I added a VM to the NAS?

Lots of questions... pls halp!
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:P 2y ago

I would boost the RAM or you will be syncing forever ♾️. If you run mynode you can run both a bitcoin and lightning node in the same instance/container.

You could run 2 containers with two separate mynode instances for extra precaution.

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BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 2y ago

Sorry if this is a dumb question but... what am I precautioning against by running in separate containers vs same instance?

I'll have to check the prices on DDR3 lol. Usually those obsolete architectures end up being more expensive since they're out of production!

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:P 2y ago

If your going to be running a bunch of apps on my node and open ports best to have your main bitcoin node separate.

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BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 2y ago

Ahh ok gotcha. Makes sense!

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BITwise 🐳 >>= RIGHTish 2y ago

16 gigs of ddr3 is only 70-100k sats