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Are you using pihole to also create custom local DNS records?

Set up what you want on what you already have and if your workload is more than your hardware can handle then upgrade.

Overall most of what you rattled off isn't too resource heavy but 12gb of memory isnt exactly a lot and i dont know what your minecraft server will eat up.

Alternatively look up the recommended minimum specs for each of your desired applications and add up the needs.

Additionally if this isnt going to be a headless system and you want a desktop gui that consumes resources as well.

That sounds more or less to be exactly what I'm doing with NPM currently. I don't see how it's easier to configure as all I did was fire up the NPM container, log in, and add my host targets.

NPM also handles SSL both standard http verification as well as DNS auth for wildcards.

Whats wrong with NPM?

Its just a computer, nothing more. You would do exactly the same thing as you would on a desktop or vps.

No you do not have to plug in both power cords but if both aren't plugged in it may blare an alarm. If so plug in the other or just remove the redundant PSU.

+1 for restic. I have additionally started using autorestic with it and have been happy how it operates.

No problem, glad I could help. In general the Hercules stuff is pretty solid so unless you are a professional that's going to use it for hours and hours they're likely a perfectly serviceable choice.

I don't own one but if you aren't aware I'd recommend checking out the Torque Test Channel on YouTube. They've definitely done it testing on the Hercules models and compared them to others.

No its Philips. Its odd shape is because its been stripped/rounded/damaged. You'll probably want to consider replacing it.

Reminds me of a tip for a soldering gun.

Haha I think it's plenty durable so long as you aren't dropping it all the time.

The rattle is probably just the side buttons which do have a little wiggle due to the tolerances of the case.

The touch wheel on my was a little loose too which was a know issue. I just put a little piece of double sides tape on the top between it and the case and now it's all good.

I don't necessarily expect it to be supported indefinitely but they only just got the hardware into backers hands and are now taking in a lot of feedback so I don't think it unreasonable to expect some reasonable improvements in the shorter term.

Time will tell though. Personally I'd be quite happy with it after some bug fixes and a few small features. And if worse comes to worse it will become a personal coding project for myself.