"It always used to be Start9 until my laptop nearly set on fire. The battery warped. Actually it was at Black Coffee's house"
Asked to pick one self hosting node and only one, Max goes Umbrel, and he knows it is not the cypherpunk answer.
"I fucked around with Start9 a lot. I fucked around with a lot of other nodes over the years. And the only node that I've never had a problem on ever is Umbrel."
He destroyed a Start9 node twice running a Monero node on it and had to rebuild from scratch both times. Same setup on Umbrel worked straight out of the box.
Q's caveat: the licence still is not truly open source. As a product though, hard to fault.
MaxUM (npub1lqv…fx0r)
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https://ungovernable.network/shows/freedom-tech-friday/answering-your-questions/
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