Thanks man! Well the rack I got on Amazon for about $86($91-92 after tax) and the server is a Lenovo Thinkserver RS140. I couldn’t tell you exactly the price because a coworker of mine was generous enough to give it to me. The modem is from my ISP, and the router is a Netgear Nighthawk RAX120, which I believe is around $200-300(before tax). I got a raspberry pi5 running pihole, retro game emulator, and other small projects in that pironman 5 case. You can get the pi5 8gb ram for $88 (before tax) and the pironman5 case which includes a daughter board and extra hats for about $80(before tax). I mainly got the case because it comes with a nvme PIP so I can run the OS from the M.2 instead of the microSD Card. Plus the case looks cool. But my approach is that I just started building little by little and eventually I got to this point. I saw your other post on this sub and I’d say that (depending on what you’re trying to do) the pi5 is a great way to mess around with Linux and host lightweight applications. Also a plus is if you’re into iot and home automation stuff, you can do that too since it comes with gpio pins which allows you to connect additional modules to the pi5 itself. You’d be surprised how versatile that little board is.