We don't provide narrow timelines anymore. Defintely this year. Could be sooner, could be later
You can also throw Start9 on an old laptop for free, easy
This is a self-hosted Ghost instance running on a real Start9 Server Pro.
We hacked this in as a demo, but it's coming this year along with a mountain of other features and upgrades. 0.4.0 will change the game.
You mean accessing it? Absolutely. If you access locally it is over https. If you access remotely it's over Tor, which has e2e encruption built in.
📣 LND 0.16.1 is available on the Start9 Registry.
This is an important update that fixes a yet undisclosed critical issue in LND. Updating is highly recommended.
WARNING: LND 0.16.1 contains a bug that results in a long startup process, upward of 8 minutes. Be patient.
For the record:
An overview of Start9's decentralized marketplace architecture and strategy, including requirements for listing your service on the new Community Registry.
No. The two systems are entirely incompatible.
Umbrel is an app that runs on top of a Linux distro. You can think of Umbrel as a more convenient and beautiful way to discover and install Docker containers. It also offers custom UIs for a couple of the containers. Essentially, Umbrel makes it easy to get up and running with a server and to use certain services more conveniently.
Start9 is an actual Linux distro. It is the first viable Linux distro optimized to administer a personal server, rather than a personal computer. Debian, Ubuntu, etc (also Mac, Windows, iOS, Android) are all optimized for administering a personal computer. Yes, they accomodate server software, but the user must "pop the hood" and administer the server from the command line, which requires significant expertise and time.
With Start9, everything you would ordinarily do from the Linuix command line has been transformed into a graphical interface. So not only does it facilitate the discovery and installation of containers, it also empowers the user to self administer the server and its software in perpetuity. This includes form-based service configuration, automatic dependency management, the viewing of important properties, simple buttons to replace command line commands, service backup and restore, ongoing health checks, a notification system, viewing service logs, even the basic ability to stop and start a service. Umbrel does none of this.
All this power with Start9 requires upstram applications to be packaged specifically for Start9, just as they must be packaged for Mac or Windows. You can not just run a Docker container on your Start9 server.
In short, Umbrel gives you a meal, Start9 enables you to fish for yourself. We also have incredible customer support with an average response time of under 10 minutes. From what we can tell and from the many people who have migrated from Umbrel, they rarely reply to cusomter inquiries at all.
Nicely, soon
📣 Attn iOS users
The latest Vaultwarden enables https for .onion.
This means you can now connect your iOS Bitwarden app to your Vaultwarden server over Tor.
🚀 Become your own streaming service with Jellyfin, now available on the Start9 Registry!
Check it out: https://jellyfin.org/
Shout out to the @jellyfin team, and to Full Metal Anarchist, Start9's new developer, for packaging 💪
The streaming war combatants never saw the individual coming
Iris is now available on the Start9 Registry!
Connect your self-hosted Nostr client to your self-hosted Nostr relay.
Works locally and over Tor.
Thanks #[0] for building this client, and thanks #[1] for packaging!
Here's the link "just in case": https://bitcoin-store.start9.com.
Free shipping too.
Lot cheaper if you buy with BTC
We're sponsoring Psychedelic Science 2023 from June 19-23.
PS2023 will be the largest psychedelic gathering in history.
Join us in Denver, CO!
Tailscale is not sovereign, it requires a trusted intermediary. What we have coming over the next couple months is better.
It's less about Bitcoin/non-Bitcoin and more about not putting all your critical data on one server. Best to divide it up amongst multiple servers and reserve one for experimentation with new services.
You can run Bitcoin alone on one server and everything else on another server. It's all a la carte
We have a simple guide, has worked great for many others already: https://community.start9.com/t/howto-migrate-from-umbrel-0-5-x-to-embassy
Join our Telegram chat if you have issues or questions. The team is always around: https://t.me/start9_labs
So cool, this thing is quite unbelievable
