You are the only one that I repeatedly hear saying that a Raspberry Pi isn't enough. The people I know personally in the Bitcoin community run just fine with Rsapberry Pis - and cpu/ram usage is never a complain.
From experience chatting with friends and my own experience, I have heard bad stories from some, and I'd say:
Go with top of the line everything for a RasPi setup, good, large SSD, most RAM you can configure. What I think is not really sensible is thinking it's possible to DIY and use the cheapest configuration that 'technically works'. This is still a cheap setup for a hobbyist ... but it's not that cheap! It's not something a 14 year old can set up with a couple of weeks' pocket money :)
bitcoind especially, and to a lesser extent LN node, plus all the extras people inevitably end up installing ... it's so easy for the hardware just not to be able to keep up.
From experience chatting with friends and my own experience, I have heard bad stories from some, and I'd say:
Go with top of the line everything for a RasPi setup, good, large SSD, most RAM you can configure. What I think is not really sensible is thinking it's possible to DIY and use the cheapest configuration that 'technically works'. This is still a cheap setup for a hobbyist ... but it's not that cheap! It's not something a 14 year old can set up with a couple of weeks' pocket money :)
bitcoind especially, and to a lesser extent LN node, plus all the extras people inevitably end up installing ... it's so easy for the hardware just not to be able to keep up.