I went all out for a bit with a server rack with a 12 bay hot swap Dell server and a separate application server with a bunch of VMs all hooked up to a fiber connection with no blocked ports, but I just downsized to a 6 bay synology and intel nuc10-i7 since I’ll be moving and losing the fiber connection and basement space.

Now I just run most of my docker containers on the synology using the official docker plugin which provides native support for docker compose, with the exception of plex/jellyfin, which run on the nuc that has quicksync for low power transcoding. For internet connection I set up a digitalocean droplet with wireguard and haproxy which reverse proxies port 80, 443, and 22 to the nuc or synology over the wireguard tunnel depending on the subdomain, and the WG connection goes out from the nuc & synology to the vps so I don’t need any forwarded ports - hopefully when I move it should just reconnect automatically in the new place without any setup. Kinda like a road warrior homelab that just needs an internet connection.