What hardware are you running your Bitcoin and/or Lightning node on?
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raspberry pi but itβs getting unwieldy at times with 4gb ram
Saddens me that people encouraged RPi for nodes, they are a terrible choice for that tbh
What would you recommend?
Old laptops or business workstations, something that isn't running ARM64, maybe something with at least 8 cores in processor
Yup, refurbished thinkpads(5 years old) are $200. They have enough CPU/ram to run a full BTC node and lightning routing node.
refurbished mini PCs
Dell optiplex
Lenovo think entre
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Raspberry pi is not production hw
yes, you are right! RPi is not the best choice.
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Dedicated PC, i5, 16gb ram, 2tb sad, 1gbps up/down
BerryPi 4 & Umbrel #[2]
Intel nuc i5 , 8gb ram
Raspberry Pi and several VPS
One on a Pi.
One on a RockPro64.
One on a laptop
One on a NUC.
Baller. ππΌ
Whatβs your favorite, or different tools for different jobs?
Yeah all for separate stuff.
RockPro is my favourite. It's a RoninDojo Tanto. Thing is bulletproof, just sits there looking awesome, mixing my sats 24/7.
Outside of that, the NUC. It's running fulcrum and imports ridiculously deep wallets in seconds.
One on a Raspberry Pi 8gb and one on a dedicated laptop.
Debian VM, on personal selfhosted HP Proliant server.
refurbished Dell Optiplex 7049 from eBay
16GB RAM
1 TB SSD drive
for ~170 $
It doesn't make any sense to buy overpriced raspberry
+1 for used/refurbished Dell Optiplex machines
Running a full node on my desktop PC.
Ryzen 3900x, 24 threads, 64GB RAM.
linux pc
RPi..with Umbrel. Works great.
on the same pc i run a lightning node, i mine monero too
old laptop
Pi4 8Gb w/ #Umbrel
Wrong question.
You should ask first:
- what is the purpose for you to run a LN node?
- are you running a public routing node or a private node?
Then depending on each answer, you size the hardware...
Intel nuc by the moment
An old Xeon E-5. Think it was a 2630v3 IIRC. Pinned a few cores and a little RAM in kvm.
Xeon with ECC memory and 6 disk RAIDZ.
Start9 Pro
Old Dell PC i7 with 48GB Ram, Mirrored 2 14TB hard drives.
Running Proxmox with Umbrel VM and another VM with TrueNAS.
Also run LXC containers of PiHole, Mealie, Wikijs, Papermerge, Wireguard, Nginx Proxy Manager, Jellyfin, Transmission, and strfry.
Not a big fan of Cloudflare but use free account to obfuscate my home IP.
Oh I really want to get a Proxmox setup up and running. One of many on the todo list.
Setting up that was my Holiday project last Xmas. Only time of year can focus enough to do it.
You have that good a setup and then you run Umbrel on it?
Umbrel was legacy from a Raspberry Pi ran for few years. Need to make time to migrate those services off that VM.
Any resources for strfry on container like that?
https://github.com/hoytech/strfry/blob/master/docs/DEPLOYMENT.md
I followed their deployment doc and skipped the Nginx portion since use Proxy Manager to add cert and expose. Need to try doing with an unprivileged container next to see if works.
Rpi 4gb
Yellow gameboy color and a NeoGeo.
Hardware: HP Proliant server running Proxmox with 16cores, 64GB RAM and RAID 5 setup for storage
Software: virtually running Umbrel, Embassy and Ubuntu running individual services
Side: RaspiBlitz on a RasPi 8gb is just starting back again because I couldn't resist playing with RaspiBlitz more
AWS. Will I get banned? π₯²
What specs and How do you pay a month?
How much
Oh god Nitesh.. we need to have a talk
4 GB Memory / 2 AMD vCPUs / 80 GB Disk
An ec2 based arm
Building a new server for this use case rn
Cool, what hardware/specs are you going for?
I ordered an i5 10 core CPU, 64 GB ram and 2TB SSD but Iβm going to use it for other stuff as well π€π»
Beefy machine! What other stuff do you want to selfhost?
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8 core
64GB RAM
Running Qubes
Bitcoind VM (Whonix OS):
4GB RAM
2 VCPUs
Cln VM (Whonix OS):
1.5GB RAM
2 VCPUs #[0]
2tb SSD + 32gb Ram β I know this is more than enough but building your own dedicated computer with high specs is close to what Raspberry Pi cost nowadays (adding everything you will need), more power for Umbrel β‘οΈ
1st - Raspiblitz on RPie
2nd - Umbrel on RPie
3rd - Bitcoin Core on Linux on old MacMini
4th - Start9 on RPie
5th - Start9 on HP EliteDesk 800 G2
Most fun to build: Linux Mac
Fastest to Sync: Start9 on HP EliteDesk (<30 hrs)
Easiest overall: Umbrel with Start9 on an RPie a close second
Lightning node on one of these: https://a.co/d/6pbYT8o
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