Running a full node at home is starting to become too expensive. We need to be honest about this.
Umbrel Home is $500. Start9 is $620.
Yes, you can do it cheaper (with a Rasberry Pi or old computer). But you will have daily or weekly issues.
I run an Pi 4 with Umbrel and I need to restart it weekly. I know many others do the same.
We need hardware to come down in price massively.
My first node was an Umbrel installed on a Ubuntu laptop and it felt VERY unstable.
After just one week, it experienced a catastrophic crash that I was not able to recover from (I'm no expert and that's probably the reason why I couldn't recover it).
I've been using a Start9 Server for the past two months or so and thankfully never experienced any downtime. My paetners' RaspiBlitz goes down once every two weeks or so.
