Synology DS920+ or DS1520+, either one.

You’ll find each step of the process mostly handheld with great guides online for pretty much anything you would ever wanna do with a NAS.

XAMPP? I started with that in Secondary School (equivalent to high school)

2008/2009, learnt how to make webpages in school using Dreamweaver, so went home and found out eventually after months of trying, to host my own webpage using XAMPP. That kinda died and turned into a blogspot page instead.

Fast forward to today, piracy, privacy and posterity. Aka, Plex, Adguard and a bunch of tools for storing family photos, documents, ebooks.

Sounds good, the finance, political and oil industries should adopt this practice too. Stock market crash - wall street culling time! 🥳