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On an old Dell Optiplex Micro:

- AdGuard for DNS blocking.

- HomeAssistant for all of my smart home stuff.

- Confluence for my wiki (back when you could get a $10 license, and yes I know it's overkill/unnecessary pain).

- Postgres (for Confluence)

- Nginx for reverse proxy.

I also have a Synology NAS (DS1618+) with a bunch of 10TB drives. The stock Synology apps are pretty decent and the entire package is polished compared to using something like FreeNAS. I use the built-in Photos app to manage my photo collection, ActiveBackup handles backups across all my PCs, and the Synology Drive software replaces Dropbox for me (complete with the ability to share a file via a password protected link). I run a dockerized version of SabNZBd/Sonarr/Radarr as well right on the NAS. Synology's CloudSync utility copies my most important files to a Backblaze B2 bucket.

I have the NAS connected via a 10 gig NIC for the NAS and a cheap Mikrotik 10 gig switch (with a gigabit uplink to the rest of my network). Combined with a QNAP Thunderbolt to SFP adapter for my MacBook, it's more than fast enough to use like local storage, including running VMs.




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