What do you want to self host? To learn or experiment buy a cheap old x86 box. I get mine at goodwill auction. Otherwise desktop is good if you want something that needs more compute and that you’d spin up as needed vs always on.

Looks delicious! I’d say he knows what he’s doing. Our daughter, age 3, devours raw fish. We can’t afford to keep up at restaurants so need to learn these skills ASAP. How’d he get so good? Practice or is there a secret source of knowledge?