for that use case there are many competitors all of which are free besides for hardware...

i am glad it worked for you but long term their business seems to be a very tough one 

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disagree - thanks to start9 I was able to set up a full BTC node and lightning instance without ever having used a raspberry pi before, nor built an operating system from a github repo.

The instructions are great, and the parts are easy to obtain / put together.  And cheap.

I'm no sysadmin but now I have a self hosted file server, mastodon instance, sphinx chat and more - all backed up on my own SSD device.

No google, no apple, no digital ocean, no AWS

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disagree - thanks to start9 I was able to set up a full BTC node and lightning instance without ever having used a raspberry pi before, nor built an operating system from a github repo.

The instructions are great, and the parts are easy to obtain / put together.  And cheap.

I'm no sysadmin but now I have a self hosted file server, mastodon instance, sphinx chat and more - all backed up on my own SSD device.

No google, no apple, no digital ocean, no AWS