Synology DS920+ or DS1520+, either one.
You’ll find each step of the process mostly handheld with great guides online for pretty much anything you would ever wanna do with a NAS.
Two ways, the other is by saying “solved” with a half baked solution that’s incorrect.
XAMPP? I started with that in Secondary School (equivalent to high school)
2008/2009, learnt how to make webpages in school using Dreamweaver, so went home and found out eventually after months of trying, to host my own webpage using XAMPP. That kinda died and turned into a blogspot page instead.
Fast forward to today, piracy, privacy and posterity. Aka, Plex, Adguard and a bunch of tools for storing family photos, documents, ebooks.
Not gonna lie it was really confusing to begin with, even with a guide. Partially because I dropped by kbin first.
Kung Fu Hustle by Stephen Chow