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 ====== Mini-PC Home Server Guide ======
-If you want to have a home server, where you can host services and websites, using—for example—an old mini PC, you can follow these steps. At Well  Gedacht Publishing, we use an old HP Prodesk 400 G3 Mini we bought off  Kleinanzeigen for around 40 bucks (€). These types of mini PCs are relatively easy to find for cheap use online because they were used widely by companies that bought them in large quantities. After their corporate owners renew them, most of these old but perfectly capable PCs end up on websites like eBay. The main advantage of these mini PCs that were meant for enterprise use is that they consume low energy when idle. We installed [[https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-virtual-environment/get-started|Proxmox]] on it and then used a Debian Linux virtual machine to run [[https://www.docker.com/|Docker]].
+If you want a home server where you can host services and websites, using—for example—an old mini PC, you can follow these steps. At Well  Gedacht Publishing, we use an old HP Prodesk 400 G3 Mini we bought off  Kleinanzeigen for around 40 bucks (€). These mini PCs are relatively easy to find for cheap online because they were used widely by companies that bought them in large quantities. After their corporate owners renew them, most of these old but perfectly capable PCs end up on websites like eBay. The main advantage of these mini PCs for enterprise use is that they consume low energy when idle. We installed [[https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-virtual-environment/get-started|Proxmox]] on it and then used a Debian Linux virtual machine to run [[https://www.docker.com/|Docker]] containers for various self-hosted services, applications, and websites.
 We compiled this guide using a bunch of different guides found online,  which we linked in this article. There are many well-put-together guides on self-hosting, Docker, [[https://nginxproxymanager.com/|Nginx Proxy Manager]], etc. Still, the majority of them focus on making your self-hosted services accessible online, for example, making a [[https://jellyfin.org/|Jellyfin]] or a Guacamole server remotely accessible online. Since we used different how-to guides to accomplish what we wanted, we decided to document our process, and make a single guide out of several available.