Yep, I've got an OpenVPN server running on mine as well for similar reasons. It's also useful to get fine-grained control of the firewall for parental controls

Yep, I've got an OpenVPN server running on mine as well for similar reasons. It's also useful to get fine-grained control of the firewall for parental controls - tag the mac addresses of the kids devices as having to use OpenDNS websafe DNS resolvers, then block any other DNS traffic on the firewall and enforce time limits on internet usage. I've got a small NAS connected to it as well to serve as backup repository for all computers in the house (which is then synced off to a cloud backup storage provider) and media server.