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The beginning of your post sounds like you are still looking at hardware to buy, but the later half seems like you already have the NUC?
If not I'd suggest looking at a used HP Mini, Lenovo Tiny, or Dell Micro ex-enterprise PC. They can be had very cheap off ebay, run with similarly low power demands but very capable devices. I run an HP 705 G4 mini Ryzen 5 2600GE with 16gb ram, 256gb SSD, cost me about $95 and averages about 15w
I haven't bought any hardware yet, this is just what I am currently planning to purchase.
I'm kinda cautious about purchasing second-hand stuff from the internet, especially stuff like that. Any tips on how to approach that?
I picked myself up a Asus NUC 13th gen I7, chose Proxmox VE as the OS (headless Debian 12 for the main VM) and have about 35 services running via Docker Compose essentially 24/7.
Is it the most elegant setup? No, but everything runs beautifully.
Just make sure your Linux kernel supports the Intel chipset as they are relatively new.
I only have my one anecdote to go off of, but if you are located in the US eBay is full of enterprise computer reseller postings and mine arrived in very clean condition. And eBay generally has pretty strong buyer protections.
Purchase in your region so you can have a look at it and back out if hardware looks damaged, very dirty or not well handled by previous owner. 2nd hand is usually fine for most hardware, people sell because they upgrade or because win11 not supported, not because it's broken.