You have that new machine to play with. So do it.

Install it and play around. If you do nothing that should “last forever” in these first days, you can tear it down and do it again in different ways.

Oh yeah, absolutely will do. Was simply hoping to get an idea of how self-hosters who’ve been using it for a while now set it up to get a rough picture of where I want to be once I am done screwing around with it.