Yeah, that is my standard way of doing things. Old desktop becomes the server, and it’s specs blow everything I want it to do out of the water, so things like file storage (and the CPU required to encrypt-on-disk), etc have no chance of ever presenting an issue. Though, I do have a pair of Pis with POE hats on them, because I really like POE.

Then I set it up for auto-updates and proceed to ignore it. Love very simple home networking setups that still accomplish every goal.