Great guide, and you touch on important points that other guides don't. You do well describing which hardware to choose, whether it is something like Voltage or using your own hardware.

We've made some docs for the Lightning network.

Love the upfront transparency!

This guide is strictly based on my own experience as a developer, node runner, and student of economics.

This guide is opinionated, and intended to be practical instead of theoretical.

Started skimming, but will read through later. Looks good!

ty for writing this - I am in the process of rebuilding my own node & helping a friend get theirs set up - I'd like to get them & myself on the right path and this is going to be really helpful to look at/ send to them

Gave it a glance, saw this

Set up a ZFS Pool

Impressed, this is very good signal... few understand the importance of the channel state storage

Set up TOR

I did notice this one piece of counter-signal, Tor use should be discouraged as a honeypot which also makes Lightning unusable

Suggest replacing with ssh -R to a low-end VPS or at worst a VPN service where privacy is a consideration

Very good guide!
One mention: please insert a chapter talking about the differences between PUBLIC and PRIVATE LN nodes. The whole guide you've talk is about public nodes and you missed out a lot to talk about the private ones.

I will give some hints here: #486306