5 sats \ 1 reply \ @034b483ee7 17 Dec 2023 \ on: What is the most reliable and cost-effective way to build a BTC and LN node? bitcoin_beginners
For LN node, one has remember that a lightning node should be online 24x7x365 or as close to it as possible. For me this ruled out running it on home hardware.
For my lightning node, I went with hosting it on Oracle Cloud using the free-forever offering using an ARM VM instance and installed Ubuntu. The ARM free-forever option is a 4-core processor, 24GB Memory, and 200GB memory. Next I used the Docker instance of BTCPay server and implemented the LND node instance. This node has been running now for almost a year at ZERO hosting cost.
Here are some related references for your journey on running bitcoin core on your home hardware.
https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qq255nfnvvuxju2wv3kkgdmex9yh262cg46nyq3qyrshm58vrwcgxf5guuu6mztsn5z8m6era4g5dq3wlhfdy2h9qntsxpqqqp65we3h2hu
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @021da48107 18 Dec 2023
and 200GB memory
I think you meant storage here.
What did you use for storage? I know the Oracle Cloud free tier doesn't offer 1tb of storage.
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