@Argus I found out the hard way the RPis have a frustrating tendency to kill MicroSD cards, especially if the software running on it is heavy on writes to the filesystem and the power source is unstable.

That's why I buy SBCs with eMMC as storage (Asus tinkerboard, Odroid XU4). Also, you can write RPIs img files to a SSD and boot it up from a SATA to USB thingie. Doing that gave me better performances on my Home Assistant installation.

That being said, SBCs are definitely a great way to democratize self-hosting! I tried Yunohost on a X64 "normal" server. I appreciate reading your experimentation with it on ARM.
@jpeg @Argus I'm just looking at the odroids, do you have experience with them?
@commonspub @Argus I do, yes! I use them as on-site IoT servers. Very stable and performing little beasts.

There's a SD slot you can still use as "external storage" while the filesystem is on the eMMC. Great for backing up metrics.