If this was going to be used for some "big and serious" application, maybe different choices would have been made. Hopefully it was clear from the post that my goals here were the exact opposite!
In my own anecdotal experience of running a hobby server on Arch for several years, I haven't experienced anything to make me think the distro is unsuitable for server work.
In my own anecdotal experience of running a hobby server on Arch for several years, I haven't experienced anything to make me think the distro is unsuitable for server work.