Define "home server." Consumer-grade NASes are so powerful they can pretty much do anything you'd do with a "home server."
On my smart TVs, I installed Kodi. I have an off-the-shelf NAS that serves the files via NFS. It can do Plex, if that's your cup of tea. (But I prefer Kodi, because most of things I do are audiophile grade and I don't want the kind of transcoding that Plex does.)
The NAS is basically a super-powerful server in a tiny footprint. I just use it for files, because I just don't care to take the time to learn how to do anything else. One critical feature is that it's point-and-click RAID. I've hot-swapped drives after a failure with no downtime; all point-and-click over the web interface.
But, one thing I want to do is self-host my own website, and self-host a mastodon node. Maybe if I was independently wealthy I'd take the time to figure it out, like when I ran a dial-up BBS when I was younger.
On my smart TVs, I installed Kodi. I have an off-the-shelf NAS that serves the files via NFS. It can do Plex, if that's your cup of tea. (But I prefer Kodi, because most of things I do are audiophile grade and I don't want the kind of transcoding that Plex does.)
The NAS is basically a super-powerful server in a tiny footprint. I just use it for files, because I just don't care to take the time to learn how to do anything else. One critical feature is that it's point-and-click RAID. I've hot-swapped drives after a failure with no downtime; all point-and-click over the web interface.
But, one thing I want to do is self-host my own website, and self-host a mastodon node. Maybe if I was independently wealthy I'd take the time to figure it out, like when I ran a dial-up BBS when I was younger.