I'm curious, what are implementations that are designed for people to lose funds?
I'm not a developer or builder, so my interest of running a node is purely personal and my intention is to add a few other services to the machine to make it worth running 24/7.
Right now I'm more leaning towards Ubuntu Server with a manual setup, simply because I like to have full control over what's going on and the available services to use.
@M_affirmed the losing funds part was a bit cheeky but lnd architecture is not really built with robust deployments in mind as primary storage option for state is boltdb which you need to hack your way around to have any way of backing up sanely - hence all the raid/filesystem redundancy talk in node runner circles. but it has significantly more tooling out there than alternatives so ppl still go for it
security wise don't run other (at least publicly accessible) software on the same machine as your node, its calling for trouble. if you want to make better use of hardware throw some virtualization in the mix to isolate the services
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