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-====== Self-Hosting Websites at Home with an Old Mini-PC ======
-If you want to host your (static) website at home, using—for example—an old PC as your home server, you can follow these steps. At Well  Gedacht Publishing HQ, 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]].
-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://www.plex.tv/|Plex]] 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, which is more specific to self-hosting a static website, and make a single guide out of several available.
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-<caption>The internals of the HP Prodesk 400 G3 Mini. This one is equipped with an i3-7100T 3,4Ghz CPU, 8GB of RAM (upgradable up to 32GB), and 256GB NVMe storage. Those are fairly capable specs for what we want to achieve here.</caption>
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