Freedombox, Freedombone, YunoHost...

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hack and hack
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se unió: 04/02/2015

Freedombox, Freedombone, YunoHost.
I think they're very similar, I have a hard time finding differences.
My preference for now goes to YunoHost only because it supports Wordpress (the others don't seem to support it just yet).

So, what are the other differences, if any?
Also, provided I have a (hypothetical) blog with a huge amount of visitors, what would determine my needs in hardware?
A BBB at 512GB of RAM and a 1GHz would handle this (many people reading static pages)? Unlikely I suppose, but I have know idea.
Would a netbook with 2GB of RAM and an Atom processor be enough in your opinion (it would consume more electricity, and wouldn't have a free BIOS compared to the BBB)?
Or would I need something even more capable?

What is the determining factor? I suppose the RAM comes first.
I don't know about the CPU since it's about displaying single pages.
How could I measure it?

hack and hack
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se unió: 04/02/2015

Looks like this partly answers my question about capacity.
https://serverfault.com/questions/185011/how-much-memory-would-be-needed-for-a-wordpress-site-with-8-000-hits-per-day-wit

I'm still intersted in the differences between the 3 OS, if you know about them.

Calinou
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se unió: 03/08/2014

If you are knowledgeable in server administration, you can set up the server yourself, no need for YunoHost or something like that.

But keep in mind that most residential (home) ISPs will block outgoing ports 80 and 25 by default. I heard you can use a VPN to overcome this (at the cost of slightly increased latency, and you'll need to find a VPN service somewhere close as well).

Laptops also don't make for good server machines, they get hot quickly.

JadedCtrl
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se unió: 08/11/2014

> Laptops also don't make for good server machines, they get hot quickly.

Yea, I can vouch for that.
A 'solution' that I use: Propping the laptop up so that the bottom and top are almost equally exposed to the open air keeps the laptop a lot cooler.

hack and hack
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se unió: 04/02/2015

I can't say I'm knowledgeable, but I'm willing to learn.

Regarding hardware, I'm hesitating between something like a Beaglebone Black, and a bigger machine other than a laptop (because of the temperature issue).

Assuming it is running an immensely successful blog (at least an equally immense assumption, but let's imagine it will), bandwith is what might cost the most, to my limited knowledge.
I'm not sure but running a bigger server, while supporting abnormally huge bandwidth would cost much more if I self-host.

Maybe there's a better way, and I need to make some calculations, but it seems the best solution would be to have a BBB for personal use (mail server mainly),
and a provider-hosted server running Trisquel because the pricing in that case might be more interesting, plus I don't care about privacy in that case since a blog is supposed to be public.

What do you think ?
To my knowledge, bandwidth is dependent not on the hardware so much, but on the limit my ISP gives me. I need to do some reading on this actually.

hack and hack
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se unió: 04/02/2015

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2011/feb/03/website-hosting-at-home-office-ask-jack

Looks like home self-hosting comes with several issues.
It comforts me in using a portable server for personal stuff (email server mainly), and simply self-hosting the potentially heavy-duty stuff on an external shared (or dedicated) hosting, thus not having the server at home.

Whether this would be qualified as SaaS or not doesn't matter since the data in it is supposed to be public (Plus I guess I can install fully free software on it).

The only possible downside (paranoia scenario, but anyway) would be to make sure there's no security breach when I access the said server, assuming it's infected without my knowledge. I suppose a safe zone like a virtual machine or a firejailed folder (if that's possible) could be a solution.
If you have a better one, I'm all ears.

For my personal server, I probably won't go through the pain of making a server and configuring every piece of software (specially mail) by hand, though I've heard several relatively easy to setup mail programs. So I don't write this possibility off just yet.

hack and hack
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se unió: 04/02/2015

I found a couple of links related to my question (safely connecting to a hosted server, by default potentially hostile):

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/38539/why-would-a-remote-desktop-connection-harm-my-pc

http://blog.mailgun.com/security-guide-basic-infrastructure-security/

Also, maybe simply updating a wordpress blog through email is all I'd need.

It's hard to keep things simple with so much data to understand.

hack and hack
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se unió: 04/02/2015

This is all I need. Much simpler than using KVM, or another computer:
Firejail mounts a temporary tmpfs filesystem on top of /home/user directory. Any files created in this directory will be deleted once the sandbox exits. You can also use an existing directory as home directory for your sandbox, allowing you to have a persistent sandbox home:
$ firejail --private=~/my_private_dir program_and_arguments

https://firejail.wordpress.com/documentation-2/basic-usage/