I suspect in the future there will be jobs specifically for this. It would be like an IT/accounting job. This is kinda what i’ve been doing at all the previous companies i’ve worked for. Bitcoin accounting or bitcoin IT

Unless they have a reason not to, I imagine most companies would opt to outsource their website hosting and maintenance. It’s probably going to be the same thing for running nodes, but we aren’t even at the point where any companies that aren’t run by hardcore bitcoiners run their own. Joe’s Hardware store on the corner isn’t going to set up a Start9 in the back behind the key cutting machine.

Running a Nostr node on @Start9 and would love to have a GUI for configuring all protocol options and all aspects of node server performance on that Start9 marketplace installed node. This would make running a simple, small scale node for an individual (or smaller entity) super simple, and set up however they prefer within the protocol capabilities.

Do you mean relay?

First off, is it against nostr etiquette to butt into other people's conversations? If so, please ignore, if not, do you mind spitting out some of your wisdom? For personal use, do you have anything against self-hosting Albyhub? I have seen a few negative things about alby now and yesterday during the zapathon, something happened between my channel or alby and zaps didn't go through. I have my own bitcoin node running and have setup a lightning node before, but didn't want to deal with channel management and albyhub made that easy. Tried start9 and umbrel and i hate the whole super managed os approach. I like running stuff in docker or vms and be able to dig in if needed. Thanks!

Start9 is lit, you can always ssh and do whatever you want. I run it inside proxmox. But you can run whatever you want, but lxcs have been better than docker lately.

Just a follow up question if you don't mind. Would you consider start9 a hardened OS? If not, would it be best to just download a hardened linux or freeBSD image and set everything up manually. I really want to dip my toes back in and am thinking I will order some separate hardware to put that on and keep it segregated from everything else on my network. That would make me feel a bit more secure about it. I want to know how @jb55 has his node setup. Looked around for a video or talk but didn't find anything immediately. If he has gone this long safely, he must be doing something right.