May I suggest that you visit https://homenetworkguy.com/. Will give you plenty of information on what you are looking to do.

It helped me do the same.

it’s back up with a new domain…

https://torrentgalaxy.mx

In my world that extra cup is a 1tr insulated Thermos mug ;)

Or how about we are only a small island that can not support the amount of people in the country as it is.

These people have passed through many EU countries they could and legally should have stayed in.

Only reason most want to come here is the frebbies government gives out. Yet someone who is born here needs help just to live gets less than the immigrants.

With the price of a lot of the SBC’s you will probably be better of going for something like as dell 3050 with a gen7 or above in it. I picked up a gen7 dell 3050 with 4Gb and a 500Gb disk for £50. Threw in a 1tb nvme a 120gb ssd and a spare 500GB ssd I had. Installed Debian with KDE , then i set up the drive shares via sftp, installed Docker and setup the various docker containers such as freshrss, kodi, Firefox ,Pi-Hole etc.

What ever route you go have fun starting you journey in the world of self hosting.

Cheers, always nice to find something new to play with.