Self hosting (home lab) rabit hole ruminations:
Start9, umbrel, these are great options to dip your toes into self hosting. It makes the experience digestible and if you are only interested in running the tools that the bitcoin community has labeled as necessary to be "self-soveriegn" it works out of the box and that has a world of value in of it self.
But if your are curious one. Seeking knowledge and always looking to break the next link in the long shackle that holds you from sovereignty, these options are simply not enough.
If you want to run any open source program or os when your heart desires you need access to docker. In many cases you can easily download production ready software with a two line command you can copy paste...
While start9 and umbrel have great teams working hard to bring what the people want to their systems they need sidelined options to everything and are always a few versions behind. This is the nature of the beast unfortunately.
But in this ever changing world where some of the most important tools like ai have open-source options that can't fully be utilized with what these guys offer Its more important than ever to truly understand what you are trying to achieve with these systems.
Running a bitcoin node can be done on almost anything, having your own private chat server is a nice party trick, but some of the truely powerful self hosted solutions aren't native to these ecosystems.
Im open to hear everyone's opinions but I feel I've way too quickly put grown my start 9. I may just wipe it and set a new Ubuntu or other linux image on the hardware.
Anyone else go through something similar?
