Why do you say that, specifically with respect to Umbrel? Just curious from a consumer review perspective, as I'm considering both of these devices...

Frequent updates in “ubrale” meant that I had to constantly pay attention to the node's operation. RaspiBlitz was designed for Raspberry Pi, and in my opinion, this hardware is too weak for the node. For me, the best configuration is @Start9 + “One-liter computer” + UPS. With this configuration, the node worked without any problems for two years without even a restart. Recently, the node worked for over 300 days and I had to shut it down because I was upgrading the server to a better model... 🤷‍♂️

I was going to send this screenshot 😅, the previous screenshot shows how long it took me to synchronize with the Bitcoin network on new hardware, 1 day and 7 hours...

I agree, my go to bitcoin node in a box is still Start9, the long wait for a OS updates is pretty annoying though.. From a home server perspective I think Umbrel has more to offer right now. I hate that they don’t have SSL but there are more apps and services available and it gets regular OS updates. So my advice would be, 1 separate server for bitcoin / lightning related services and 1 or more for other services. Unraid is also a very nice solution and a good business model.

Cool thanks! Yeah I would use this as a general-purpose home media server, etc, so I would expect to need to do frequent updates -- 100% uptime isn't necessarily a huge priority for me.