Agreed. OP should install pfsense on that thing and run opnsense vitually on this. I do this on a Lenovo Tiny with a 10g NIC and it works perfectly

How about a selfhostable trashmail solution

You can actually boot all your servers from USB into a RAM disk. From there you can use iSCSI or NFS or Samba to mount data on your servers. It's what I do too and I have even written a guide how to set it up

Their licenses are so expensive it's incredible

Running AgentDVR. used to use the docker container but moved to a machine with a GPU now so I get hardware encoded streams

Even better combination with Home Assistant and one of the local AI providers

You can use gitea actions to run any command on any server you like. Starting backups, running git pull or push.. endless possibilities

Nobody here using AgentDVR? The docker works great and has GPU and AI support and can be integrated in Homeassistant.

Only downside is that you can't use https with the free version (unless you use it via homeassistant)

had to scroll too far to see this. Or someone questioning why OP is even using a VPN for daily traffic at all