350 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 31 May 2023 \ on: A Small Warning For Umbrel Users bitcoin
Agreed.
Mixing a BTC/LN node with many other shity apps and file storage is a BIG MISTAGE. A simple NAS like Qnap or Synology or even FreeNAS is much better solution for your other crap to store, than mixing with your node.
I have personally a Qnap NAS, that I use it for many years as my personal server with:
  • web server for my self hosted personal webs
  • email server for my personal email domain
  • file server and backup server for my other computers and devices, including my mobile device with bitcoin apps that sync all the time backups to my NAS and even send pictures to it, so I don't have to store them on my mobile, or if I am threaten, my files are already remote.
  • password manager, multi platform
  • media server, download torrent server, etc many more apps
  • my LN node also is making backups to my NAS
  • 3 fast disks in RAID 5 that never get fucked. Even if get corrupted, I can replace instantly with a new one and data is safe because of RAID 5.
Also another aspect to keep in mind:
  • these bundle nodes come with many apps for your node, like BTCPay, LNbits, Thunderhub, RTL memepool etc
  • Some of these apps like mempool will take huge resources that are more necessary for the LN node. Why do you need a mempool explorer on the same machine with your node? Just for consulting once per month a tx you've done? That's insane of wasting resources. You could consult your tx privately from any other explorer. Or if you really want it, install it on another dedicated machine and point it to your local node. DON'T KILL YOUR NODE!
  • LNbits is a wonderful accounting app, but works much better separately from your node. Why? Because if your node get fucked, also your LNbits get fucked. But if you have it separately you could immediately change your funding source in LNbits until you fix your node.
  • Thunderhub also is quite hungry in resources and could be installed on a separate machine and pointing to your node. Same for Lightning terminal and RTL.
I explained more on this guide https://darthcoin.substack.com/p/lightning-node-maintenance
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kakocuro 31 May 2023
Great tips. Well said. Uninstalling mempool explorer now :)
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