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Does anyone on #nostr use an Umbrel Home?

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_4251911305071465271690469306.webp

I currently have Umbrel running on a Raspberry Pi and the performance is not ideal.

Been thinking about upgrading.

Thoughts?

#umbrel #asknostr

Nice and Kind Vic 2y ago

I recommend enumerating what specifically you want to run on the server and then acquire hardware sized accordingly.

Raspberry pi is fine for just a few things like Bitcoin, Electrum Server, Lightning and a Block Explorer.

When you start adding much more memory and CPU intensive apps you'll run into performance bottlenecks.

The same will go for Umbrel Home. You cant run all the apps it makes available just as you wouldnt be able to do on any hardware.

Support from Umbrel is still coming up short, so buying the Umbrel Home device is really making a significant donation to that company to keep building products. You can get the same (or better) specced hardware for cheaper elsewhere

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zhenya 2y ago

Umbrel is exciting but still early project. The speed improvements they advertise on their site are accurate but deceiving.

They say umbrel home device X times faster or better than raspberry pi 4gb

What they are really saying is mini Pc with 16gb ram and market rate specs is X times faster than raspberry pi 4gb.

It’s just hardware and there’s nothing proprietary about the umbrel home hardware.

The one value prop vs getting a cheaper mini pc is Umbrel home comes preloaded with Umbrel. If you’re not comfortable with docker and CLI I can see the strong appeal and such a purchase easy justified.