There are other use cases where you might want always on Bitcoin node at home. For example, running Electrum server there and connecting wallet(s) on your mobile phone to it.

kristapsk

You're right, what I meant is running a dedicated machine as a node isn't needed unless you need always on lightning routing.

chairman_pretense

tech

Do you self host?

rustaceanrob

> Running a node is pretty useless unless you're running a proper lightning routing node

It isn't. You can run node and use it for Bitcoin onchain payments too.

For Lightning I recommend having setup with two SSDs in a mirror.