Where do you run your node?
172 sats \ 14 comments \ @joelklabo 7 Sep 2022 bitcoin
I'm running two nodes now, one on Linode and another at home over Tor. The Linode version uses Trustedcoin to get the blockchain data (I know not super secure) but makes the VPS cheap. You can see how I did it here: https://klabo.blog/lightning/bitcoin/lnbits/2022/05/14/add-tipping-to-your-site-with-LNBits.html
I'm wondering if there is a better place that you can run a full node and lightning for not a lot of money. And also not be on the same machines as a bunch of other nodes.
Linode0.0%
Amazon0.0%
Voltage8.3%
Google0.0%
Other VPS8.3%
Raspberry Pi38.9%
Other Home Server44.4%
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107 sats \ 2 replies \ @gd 7 Sep 2022
Interested in your perspective on the price of cloud-hosted nodes from providers (Voltage etc).
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15 sats \ 1 reply \ @joelklabo OP 7 Sep 2022
Voltage seems very reasonable price-wise, I just don't feel great about everyone running their nodes in the same place (like Ethereum and Infura). No offense to Voltage, I don't really know their setup but seems like you could shut them all down at once.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gd 7 Sep 2022
An understandable concern, I think a small pi-ish box in the home for everyone is the eventual end goal.
For Voltage nodes, does it feel like a factor that the $30/month nodes are on a shared instance? Seems like they only do dedicated instance nodes at $200/month
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @shyfire 7 Sep 2022
Wonder what VPS people are using for "other VPS"
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 7 Sep 2022
There are many others more popular than Linode: https://mempool.space/lightning
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @gd 7 Sep 2022
Building and "dogfooding" my own at the moment.
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12 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullcount 7 Sep 2022
You can use your tor-home node as the bitcoind backend for the VPS LN node: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/98458/connect-c-lightning-to-a-remote-bitcoind-through-tor
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @joelklabo OP 7 Sep 2022
Yeah, that's a pretty good idea
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @sommerfeld 7 Sep 2022
Not your metal, not your node!
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @joelklabo OP 7 Sep 2022
Not sure if I created the poll correctly, I guess the poster can't vote on their own.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 7 Sep 2022
You can't and I'm not sure why you'd want to? I guess to represent your pov in the poll?
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @joelklabo OP 7 Sep 2022
Yeah, didn't really need to but I just wanted to confirm it was working I guess.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @moneroshill 7 Sep 2022
I just run daemon on my own laptop. Is that not feasable on windows or something? IDK why you would use an RPi.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @falsefaucet 8 Sep 2022
i guess alot of people opt for them since its an easy standalone always on computer.
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