/hsg/ - Home server general

That was the point I was trying to make - the starter sets don't seem to be a good deal.

What if I only have 2 nuts?

Spread the load diagonally.

SystemD isn't that bad from a sysadmin standpoint. It does what I need and works fine. Idk what you're going on about with it fucking up your USBs, I've used plenty of systemd distros with no issues.

The majority of my machines are centOS and I do damn near everything with that beast. Use the minimal install and build it however you need with a few custom systemd services. Centos is pretty much the ideal linux distro IMO, super stable with great documentation and software support. I only have 2 Debian based machines, one for cross compiling some shit and one for hosting all these centos vms.

What's a good method of getting out of an ISP's NAT?

What exactly are you trying to achieve?

I'm not too sure what you mean by "getting out of" NAT... NAT is just a method of getting packets where they need to go on different networks, not something you can just "get out of"

Look up reverse SSH tunnelling or ZereoTier

why not host centos on centos?
why is centos better for servers than plain debian?

i'd say buying the starter kit is not a bad choice considering the sum of the parts is about equal

Ive had debian servers work just fine with less than half of the resources you cited.
You'll be fine.