Nah, I can’t think of hardly any reasons why I’d want to, so many things to consider. Just not worth my time

Easy, i keep it up to date, i have nothing exposed to the internet, and i lock the door :)

Nice project, couldn’t see me using it myself as I’m not sure why I’d want my VPN to randomly change every 24hrs say? You say the router is a spof, but that’s still going to be the case here isn’t it?

I run all my nerves on Debian and also a WD Nas. But, I did once run a windows 10 desktop for a few years and used it as a file server with zero issue. 24/7 access wasn’t needed so any reboots in the night we’re fine. I wouldn’t do it again, I only did it because I had the desktop with lots of drives in and I was too lazy to reinstall it lol But if I was to do it again I’d reinstall it and use truenas or Openmedia vault

About 50 watts. I downsized a few years ago, got rid of the unnecessary larger servers, moved to Intel nucs and a 4 disk nas for centralized storage. Was no need to run large servers at home, I play with them at work.

I run proxmox on the nucs with my servers in vms, each nuc has 16gb of ram and performance is fine

I’m glad I don’t run a server like this anymore, used.to years ago, migrated it all over to centralized nas storage and mini pcs running proxmox, uses a quarter of the power of one of these big old servers, no noise other then the large 10cm fan in the back of the nas. Much better for home use for me anyway and I can leave it on 24/7 without the worry of leaving it on

Never really shit my mini pcs down, sometimes I restart a proxmox node if I want it to use an updated kernal but that’s it. I don’t run large servers at home

Must admit, my initial thoughts on ubuntu server that snaps would make it very easy to install certain services proved to be true, sudo snap install nextcloud, and bang, nextcloud is installed.

I guess its no good though if you dont like snaps, for something like next cloud though i wouldnt be bothered if its installed from a snap

Enjoy. I would say with a home lab, try and plan things, what is it you want to host, what is the best hosting platform, vm, lxc, physical install etc etc. I say this because it should help stop the ‘splatter’ effect somewhat where you end up with all sorts of systems and installs all over the place. So I treat mine a bit like a work environment . Oh,.and don’t forget backups !