In fact, all the technology at my father's in the hotel should be renewed. They are completely rebuilding the hotel and are also replacing all of the electronics.
I was there on Saturday (island of Rügen) and got an overview because I can take everything I need with me.
There are already a few good pieces included, including 2 Dell Poweredge R710s with 2 Hexacore processors with I believe 3.6 GHz, 1 HP Enterprise Server with 8-core Xeon and lots of Office PCs with Haswell i3s, i5s and i7s. Plus a dozen Fujitsu lifebooks and 3 or 4 i5 Intel NUCs.
Furthermore 4 24 port gigabit switches and a UPS.
My original plan was to install Proxmox on one of the R710s and create small VPS if necessary.
The whole office computer should then serve as an inexpensive dedicated server and the notebooks should be available for any Internet pages and other small things.
Debian should be installed on the second R710 with a game panel like Easy-Wi or a buffer panel for things like Minecraft servers, Discord bots or FiveM servers.
The HP server should then be stuffed with hard drives and then used with Nextcloud as a separate cloud solution.
About the location: Internet line has 100 Mbit download, 40 Mbit upload, is well cooled and has enough space for the whole project. (Electricity costs do not matter)
I'm aware that this will not be easy, but I will do my best.
The hardware, OK, that's one thing, the internet connection the other, you would then have to find someone who rents you a stand with a connection, i.e. Server housing.
You don't even need to start without 1 GBit upstream, because 40 MBit is far too little…
For a user this is ok, even if it is already lame… But for a company a no go…
In addition, you only have 1 IP, if any…
Do you want to do the whole thing only over ports?
Nothing happens, because you can only host a single website via port 80, all the others need ports…
That's cheese.
You can't use a "normal" internet connection, your provider does not allow that. That means it has to be a business management, which usually costs significantly more. In addition, it has to be fiber optics, otherwise the latency is unacceptable.
Then in my opinion you need location-independent backups, a certain redundancy of the live systems, etc.
A proper firewall would also be recommendable, as the license can then easily cost 1000 euro per year.
Then you still have to keep up with the price of the providers who offer significantly more security (e.g. Diesel generators in the event of a power failure).
In a nutshell:
Not worth it with such a small size
