The raspberry PI is an atrociously bad computer to use as a home server, if your data is worth anything.
Until the rpi4, disk i/o performance was ridiculous and contended with network i/o.
Don't get me wrong, I love the pis,but "home serving" is probably the worst possible usage for a raspberry pi.
Any core i5 4th/5th gen or later will do wonders. If you factor in the price of the rPI and all the things you actually need to make it usable, you might as well buy a refurbished Dell Optiplex, with more extensibility and reliability.
Thanks for the feedback. I may have forgot to mention in the post, but this was more of a tutorial to learn how to do it rather than set up a production-grade hardened server for something important!
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Don't get me wrong, I love the pis,but "home serving" is probably the worst possible usage for a raspberry pi.
Any core i5 4th/5th gen or later will do wonders. If you factor in the price of the rPI and all the things you actually need to make it usable, you might as well buy a refurbished Dell Optiplex, with more extensibility and reliability.
From the benchmarks I've seen it looks more than enough for most "home serving" uses.
In addition, if you use it as public server (as done here) then the bottleneck is likely your broadband's uplink.