Wow thanks so much, you’ve pushed me to build my own! Some deals coming up on Black Friday so I’ll be ordering everything then. Thank you!!

Do you mean something like this? https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805947799076.html

With that motherboard, I think I’m only looking at a case, psu, memory, storage, and sata cables. Is that right?

I think this is a good time to learn Ansible. Its a great tool for setting up and maintaining servers. With a quality Ansible playbook and backups of certain data and configuration, restoring a server is a breeze.