I use the following config: Fujitsu D3417-A Xeon 1225v5 64GB ECC RAM WD SN850x NVMe 2TB PicoPSU 160W with Bojiadafast Adapter All in all it costs ab

I use the following config: Fujitsu D3417-A Xeon 1225v5 64GB ECC RAM WD SN850x NVMe 2TB PicoPSU 160W with Bojiadafast Adapter All in all it costs about 200 bucks (Fujitsu Celsius W550), draws 10W Idle and has enough performance for a home server. OS is Proxmox with native encrypted ZFS root using zfs-auto-snapshots (ransomware protection) and docker LXC with Portainer, Nginx Proxy Manager, Letsencrypt SSL and OpenWRT+duckdns.org to make it available locally. Docker containers I use: immich - photo backup flatnotes - my personal notes kavita - ebooks navidrome - music audiobookshelf - audio books jellyfin - video pihole - adblock stirling pdf - pdf editing Backup happens to an external usb drive with one small zfs bash script and a tasmota shelly plug (Switch on the shelly plug, wait until it is available, run incremental zfs sync: zfs send --raw -RI "$BACKUP_FROM_SNAPSHOT" "$BACKUP_UNTIL_SNAPSHOT" | pv | zfs recv -Fdu "$DST_POOL" To keep it save I also backup to my parents house regularly and the most important files via restic to an old Dell T20 as well as burn it on a blu-ray. I also considered Hetzner Storage Box for this. Google is an absolute no go to me, especially unencrypted.