@larjona@identi.ca Congrats on the setup!

Something you may find is that self-hosting mail is among the most problematic services due to ISPs blocking to avoid malware on their networks (which is a bit silly since there are many more attack vectors these days), as well as large mail providers black-holing such servers resulting in mail being undelivered. Everything else you want to host should be smooth, though.

On the RAID front, the benefit of a software raid is that it is a standard that will work in any other computer. With a motherboard raid, you're at the mercy of that particular chip which can be a challenge when your motherboard dies and it's non-trivial to find an exact replacement.

I'm interested to hear if you find any benefit to the non-free graphics driver. OpenCL could be useful, but if MediaGoblin or video transcoders don't use it, it seems like a freedom (and security) sacrifice for slightly different terminal fonts that will rarely be seen. Keep us updated in any case!

It's looking like a great start for your self-hosting.