When I was 15, I built myself my first gaming computer. It worked excellently for my needs for a time, at which point I upgraded. When I did that, I was left with the old chassis, hard drives, CPU, and a few other miscellaneous components. I did not have a plan what to do with it, so the components sat in a closet for a few years.
Some time later, in my community college education, I was introduced to the idea of self-hosted services. The idea of having your own server where photos are accessible to the internet, your own custom home automation server, a server for your camera recordings to live, a recipe hosting website; the possibilities were endless.
Of course, it took some time until I had created the first iteration. This was before I was brave enough to virtualize the services.
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