Yeah, currently I am running a few dockers. Photoprism, cloud key for my network, house inventory app, house scan app and a couple of other things. I'm using some tiny think centres and a larger one for the photoprism. The most demanding part of photoprism is the indexing stuff. That's really where I think I could use dual processors.

In addition to that, I do blender rendering for optical systems and FEA using PrePoMax which uses calcilulix. I think I could do modeling work on my desktop and then set up the loud machine in the garage to run refer jobs or FEA solving jobs. My desktop is an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 I think, it's not top of the line. It looks like the server I picked might have about the same amount of computing power?? Plus some extra. As is, the servers chug along but photoprism seems to reboot the computer every month or so, and I think it's either crashing from peak use or maybe Ubuntu is auto updating and the computer is not set up to restart after power cycling.

I noticed the server hardware has really good networking and I want to take advantage of that running all my little services around.