Umbrel was a great stepping stone for me -- it introduced me to self-hosting. But it ultimately inspired me to set up my own dashboard and containers. Hope your latest foray goes well 

 I love Umbrel, but it's also given me a lot of headaches.

Start9 is easier to backup. Indon'tbeven know how to back up Umbrel since they revamped the OS. 

 had similar issues with Umbrel. went to start9 and never looked back.  

 I like them both. 

 You can migrate to raspiblitz if it still crashes 

 I think it is pretty solid these days! I've had no issues what so ever 

 Same, I ended up moving to another distro (mynodebtc.com) - not had a spot of bother since.  But then mynode isn’t as fancy and doesn’t do as many other things.  It just does a really good job of being a node for btc and LN and other ecosystem stuff (jam, nostr, etc). 

 Start9 is stable.  

 My original umbrel on RPi4 failed, but then I went with an OrangePi5 w/16GB ram and configured to boot from an M.2 rather than the SD card.  Been running great with the Orange Pi so far and can handle more load.  Problem now is Umbrel updated their OS again so I do need to reconfigure for that when I have time.  Not a priority though. 

 Let me know how this goes. I just got one and am having trouble making it work.