Hey mate, I was in the same spot roughly 6 months ago, and now have a pretty decent homeland hosting a bunch of services and it’s been amazing! I don’t really want to say what or how I set things up because I’m no where near competent enough to be offering guidance or advice, but I will say, if you have the time to knuckle down and learn, you can definitely do it! It’s very intimidating but by no means insurmountably hard.

If you have an old PC that you don’t care about, you can just chuck some stuff on there to see if it’s something you would want to get into, wIth little to no risk.

This is why real scientists use the only reasonable real world measurement - a perfectly spherical cow in a vacuum.

But saying “com-fidi-ble” is so much more fun