Whatever you do, make sure your backups are solid. Consider it while you make decisions on what software, and services to use. “I’m going to set up nextcloud today, how am I going to back that shit up?”

Easy, set up a mail server, then 98% of your traffic will be inbound attack attempts on that. Like mine…

I was using mailgun, but they recently fucked me, so I switched everything to Brevo.