@pho4cexa I've hosted services from home since 2010. Initially just a wiki, but later other things. The things I'm hosting are only for my own use, so random internet users can't create accounts.
I've not had any trouble with break-ins so far. This doesn't mean that my server is an impregnable fortress, but probably the security checks on it are above average which might make it difficult for an attacker to implant something without it being noticed. There are over 100 STIG tests which run daily. The firewall only allows communication on the expected ports. There is no icmp. Cipher settings are mostly from bettercrypto.org. Administration is via ssh, not via a web admin system, although that might change in future.
I expect that over the next 5-10 years things will get more hostile for self-hosters like me. In 2016 the UK created a new law legalizing government "equipment interference" of computer systems. Other governments have been passing similar laws in the aftermath of Snowden. So I'm expecting in future that I might be dealing with problems such as trying to keep the government out of my systems.
@antanicus @h I don't think I want a thin client future, where there would be even less chance of users controlling their software. I'd rather have a decentralized or peer-to-peer future.
So it looks like the Ghost blogging system isn't going to install on a BBB. I think I had this installed before, but that might have been prior to version 1.0.0. This looks like it might be a RAM issue, running out and then having the OOM killer randomly kill something critical. https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost-CLI/issues/192 !Freedombone
@charlag Try to get as much RAM as you can. If you want to run a Matrix homeserver then that will consume at least 1 Gb of RAM. Most other apps take a lot less though.
Although not the latest and greatest a Cubietruck of Olinuxino Lime2 should be ok. If you don't care about the proprietary boot blob then you could go for one of the aarch64 octacore boards which would make a really powerful server.
@jasondclinton If anything good comes out of this then it will be more open designs for CPUs. If the designs were public then I bet these problems would have been spotted much earlier. It's also an indicator that there was groupthink among the chip designers such they independently made the same mistakes.