Umbrel or Start9? How has your experience been with them? #asknostr
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nostr:nprofile1q9z8wue69uhnvmr9dp58jernwf6xsct8d45hxdn4w5m8gatrdej8v7nhxa3h2cnsw94ksanc09unw6n0d9hkxdp4d44hxu35v4skgtn0de5k7m30qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqzq44xkafh8j8hhy79809wsmv0lw46nu4pkwqjyp20ekml80mytde8phfu08 has been fantastic! I have only run into a few issues in my time using it over the past year.
1. Remote access is limited to Tor. No other options at this time. This will be fixed in the upcoming 3.6 update that should be entering open beta soon.
2. Occasionally you will have a service that isn't working properly and just gets into a restart loop. Unfortunately, when this happens it also restarts Tor each time, which can mess with your connection to any lightning nodes you are connected to via Tor. I had Specter wallet in particular causing this issue for quite some time before nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7ct5d3shxtnwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qyt8wumn8ghj7ct4w35zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcqyp60l3gucvq4pnmekm9nzmf6zh8nx24jngu0aj0tfp9tz4gad5v9v94ulq2 tipped me off to what was happening.
Any other issues I have had have all been due to my own lack of technical knowledge and the Start9 team have been great about helping me through them in their Matrix chat server.
nostr:nprofile1qyt8wue69uhh2mtzwfjkctnvda3kzmp6xsurgwqpzpmhxw309a6k6cnjv4kr5dpcxsuqqg829c7gzngg5du03fdcltkt9zzdqkz4jaw9ef94cf0z6munv2r0zsg8cnv5 has also been really good. The issues I had with it are related to running it on inadequate hardware; namely a R-Pi 4. Even with that, it has held up well as a personal media server rather than a Bitcoin node. I would still like to upgrade it to some better hardware at some point.
Feel free to tag me with any specific questions, ass well.
No complaints running umbrel. Just don’t do it on a Pi
So, I've heard. What new hardware are you considering using?
I have this running ubuntu
https://www.newegg.com/p/2SW-0012-00137
With 2Tb NVME installed. I just keep it in a closet, less than 5-7w power draw at idle, and powerful enough to other homeserver-y things.
Any used computer from the last 8 years you can find should do the job just fine. Pis are just fragile and a rite of passage using umbrel+pi is reflashing the OS when it loses power all while being afraid of losing your funds.
Start9. Hands down.
Experience has been great with my diy machine. IIRC Umbrel doesn't always have the most up to date software. Haven't used it in a long time though.