I've self-hosted my own wordpress site at home, exposed to the Internet, without issue; so I know a little more than someone who will just run a shell script and press update every single time :P

I saw many of the hardforks through steem's early times, and also, of course, the one that led to hive.

I might have some time later this week. I have an unraid machine with 128GB of RAM, 10C, 20T processor, but my limiting factor might be the fact that I only have ~2TB SSD space on it.

Plenty of space for spinning rust though, and plenty of space free. I feel like that will be the biggest bottleneck. My intent would be to run the witness node in a VM, to ensure it is isolated from other processes on the machine, with no access to my local network.