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guy guythatsits@nostrplebs.com 11 months ago
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!
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AU9913 auggie@nakaMOtown.com 11 months ago
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.
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The Daniel 🖖 daniel@satsfactory.com 11 months ago
Not at all. And I absolutely love @Alby Hub. I run two myself and have also set them up for friends and even a local business. It’s a great alternative to running a fully-featured Lightning node if all you need is reliable payments. I’d love to see as many people run nodes as possible, and I even started a group to help. It’s just that I don’t really expect this will be the norm for mass adoption, at least not until it’s truly plug-and-play, and the on-chain footprint problems are solved.
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guy guythatsits@nostrplebs.com 11 months ago
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.
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