Oh well. It's been fun. And I will likely still hang around here. Who knows? Maybe I will spin up another node eventually.
Please do.
Your almost-horror story was quite fun to read, but I can only imagine how the drama unfolded.
In the end, you did the right thing.
And you learnt something new.
I hope we won't lose your enthusiasm for firing other nodes!
Oh. It might happen sooner than I had thought! I cannot stand trying to get Breeze running half as well as Zeus + either of my RPi nodes.
I am just stuck with a set of decision.
1. CL or LND? This is hard. I DO NOT want to run two. I was running both when the HDD failed last time. And there is no need to run more than one node as a hobbyist. Too much to manage. And running one will allow me to drop a reasonable amount of sats in the node and maybe enjoy seeing routing more often again. And if routing is what I want to prioritize it seems LND would be the choice. It routes better in my experience.
2. Stick with the RPi setup or graduate to something more stout? There are a lot of good arguments for the latter. Raid being the simple easiest one to see. Particularly with LND since it's channel backup stuff is not (or at least WAS not) quite as well done as CL's. The hard drive failure we simple to recover from in CL, but tricky with LND. But the Pi takes just a few watts more than a nightlight (possibly even less really) and that is attractive. And it is plenty of CPU. And I COULD always just hook a little raid enclosure up to it for that purpose... hmm.
3. Stick with Raspiblitz, or? First of all I will not "roll my own". I CAN for sure. I am highly Linux fluent, and would have no problem compiling and deploying the software. I have done this in the past. But maintainence is a bear. And the LND/CL distros (Raspiblitz, Raspibolt, Umbrel, MyNode, others) I really like the ethos and style of Raspiblitz. I am more a ssh/bash type of person that a Web Interface type. But Umbrel does offer a lot of cool plugins... hrm.
And finally I have to come up with some other silly name. Deej was a beast, but is gone. Jeed never really flourished. What is next?