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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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That's a pretty good question: Since I am new-ish to the self-hosting realm, I don't think I would have replaced my consumer router with the Dell OptiPlex 7050 that I decided on. Of course this does make things very secure considering my router is powered by OpenBSD. Originally, I was just participating in DN42 which is one giant VPN semi-mesh network. Out of that hatched the idea to yank stuff out of the cloud. Instead, I would have put the money towards building a dedicated server instead of using my desktop as a server. At the time I didn't realize how cheap older Xeon processors are. I could have cobbled together a powerhouse multi-core, multi-threaded Proxmox or xcp-ng server for maybe around 500-600 bucks. Oh well, lesson learned.