All you really need these days is a good solid connection to the Net, a decent Pipe, and Protection.

Install a top tier VPN and change your Name Servers to point to CloudFlare's DNS servers (1.1.1.1) for Protection.

For the Pipe, have one that will stand up straight, and present those goodies with style! (a triple entendre, btw...)

I have seen our Internet world from it's infancy. I hooked up three new items called modems for San Francisco based Interocean Steamship, to communicate shipping data with their subsidiaries in Long Beach and Seattle.

This was two years before the IBM PC came out in 1981!