Turning a Dusty Mini PC into a Home Server: My NUC-8’s Second Life

I gave an unused Beelink SEi8 mini PC a second life by installing Ubuntu and turning it into a home server. It now runs a STEEM node, Node.js applications, databases, a reverse proxy and Cloudflare Tunnel. The article also explains how double NAT allows the NUC-8 to initiate connections to my Raspberry Pis while preventing connections in the opposite direction, as well as covering home broadband,…