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~bitdweller

Oh this is interesting! ~bartender, please, another beer. I'd like a pilsen now, and if you have somwthing with a hint of lemon, I want that!

I have never heard of the APU2 or pcengines, I'm not the most verses in this area. I'm using Rpis because that's what I know, also because there's more tutorials and guides around, a bigger (specific) community, more accessories and related hardware, at least more for me to find.

You self host a lot of things. So you're running your own email server? Does that work OK for you? Email is too critical for me to self administer and host. I move and travel a lot and, sometimes I won't have a permanent house to have the server on.

I'm thinking of having some stuff available on the onion network as well, so I won't need to mess with routers or tunnelling. Thats5a great idea, thank you :)

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~ew wrote:

There is a large number of Single-Board-Computers. The Pi happens to be well known. But each of these machines were done with some task in mind, so they have different design decisions ... The APU and ALIX line have mostly 3 ethernet interfaces, which is the stuff you want to have, if this box serves like a gateway of some sort. I have also used soekris.net boxes.

As for the Pi, I have a few complaints:

imho usable only with additional, battery backed clock
sdCards are a bit flaky. At least that is what I have experienced. If you can run your thing in RAM, all fine. But I'd rather have one or two true SATA interfaces.
no onboard battery charger
binary blob to boot

But I disgress. The Pi is a fascinating machine, it's just not the answer to all problems computing :-)

Email. Well, I do host an instance of dovecot/postfix. dovecot serves my several email boxes on the local network. However, it is not contacted directly. My official mailboxes are still hosted at some provider, I just download their content periodically using old and trusty fetchmail. For a nomadic setup this is not really good. Accessing home via TOR is possible but slow. You don't want to "work" with this. But you can then start any other tunnel/VPN solution from the "inside'. I do use this like once in a year. So, for me, this is good enough.

~bartender? All this techno-babbling makes my mouth dry ... how about another stout? Same as before? Yes? Ah, good. Thanks so much.

Cheers!