It really just came down to simplifying my life. I've been running the node for over a year now, and learnt a heap. But was constantly stressed about keeping the node online, balanced, fee structure, etc. Additionally my node kept crashing randomly and could never work out why. 

Will keep my node online for mainly personal use. Perhaps one day I'll be back in a more professional sense. So far I've closed about half my channels. 

When I come back I'll make sure I tick these requirements: 

1. Fallback power source
2. Fallback internet connection 
3. Capital to deploy 
4. More reliable server vs umbrel + raspberry pi. 
5. Probably use CLN over LND


FatBear

Why didn't you want to be a routing node anymore? I tried doing it for a few weeks, but I never felt comfortable trying to balance my channels.

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saloon

I decided to close about half the channels on my lightning node. No longer wanted to be a routing node - happy to explain why if anyone is interested. But that actually doubled my routing fees. Very interesting. 