BTCPay: Worth It?

[tfasano1]

Seen here https://docs.btcpayserver.org/Deployment/ManualDeploymentExtended
it's inherently risky to setup Btcpay manually, especially for newbies. It's also an extremely long winded process to install.

Deploying with docker (especially for personal use) is a huge anti-pattern and also not consistent with other tutorials.

However, I think there's a high demand for business-oriented payment processing using crypto. Btcpay can allow a small business to get paid and not have to deal with customer's credit card / debit card / bank account / personal info, while also not submitting to custodial exchanges nor fiat payment processor policies. Plus it has a Monero integration.

Does anyone think Btcpay would be a good tutorial to be considered? Would including docker be an acceptable exception?

[LukeSmithxyz]

I think I had written somewhere that I would be okay with a BTC tutorial using Docker (thus making an exception), but honestly, I'm not sure at this point. I'd like a guide for it, but it should be the non-Docker deployment.

I had run a BTCPay instance with Docker, and I will flatly say it was sheer frustration because the extra layer of Docker made what would otherwise be simple fixes extremely painful to put in order.

Honestly, yeah they say you should run it via Docker for "ease" and "security", but you have to remember they're talking to a different audience than this site is. They are talking about Windows-normies who think BTC is cool, whereas the audience of this site is more sysadmins or wannabe-sysadmins who already have Linux experience.

I wouldn't worry too much about the "length" of installation either. There are a lot of these guides where steps can easily be combined or summed up in one pastable line.