I'm concerned start9 won't run properly on an i5 2.3ghz (2.4 boosted) w 8gb RAM.
Or do you think I should try it?
Discussion
what services are you planning to run? a btc stack or more ?
Rebooting my lightning setup and just meandering around just setting up LND directly or using one of these OS
i have a btc only stack that runs more than just that. its on an old dell mini pc with 16 gb ram. uses close to 8 gb at any time, sometimes a bit above. i looked it up hoping to be able to say 'ur fine' but...my answer is i dunno 😅
What are you running?
i run bith CLN and LND, datum, pub pool, mempool, electrs, Jam
I stopped using Start9 as a serious node because I mostly manage my nodes remotely. Umbrel has Tailscale VPN, which I use to access all my nodes, but Start9 only uses Tor, which works, but is slow and a pain.
This is why I don't use it in a production server.
As for your spec, I don't think Start9 is demanding on the CPU, but in my experience the more RAM the better.
8GB for any node OS is the minimum these days. I have an Umbrel home, which has 16GB, which is fine as a pure node, but I'd like to run other things on it, but I dare not with only 16GB.
A lot of people highly rate Start9, I'm not certain why. Umbrel definitely has the UI, which I'm a sucker for. I believe many rate Start9 because it is a more robust OS, built from the ground up as a node, whereas Umbrel is an app sitting on top of Linux.
I understand the difference, but personally, I think this point is moot.
you can use both LNC and albyhub NWC to access your lightning node without tor on start9, fyi