A raspi is really not the best for a home server. An old laptop or desktop would give you much better performance than a Raspberry Pi would.

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If you still want to spend money on separate hardware, I'm a big fan of old Dell OptiPlex Towers. You can find them pretty cheap on eBay. ~85$ gets you 8 to 16 gigs of ram and an i5 or i7 processor. For that price you'll probably have to provide your own hard drive but shop Around and you would be surprised what you can find.

My desktops cost ~$150 in eBay parts. Good advice here

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Used dell thin clients ftw as well.

I really got to hand it to Dell in their case design. It's gotten really good in the last few years and it makes swapping parts out stupid simple.