Proxmox is a great starting point. I use it in my home server and at work. It's built on Debian, with a web interface to manage your virtual machines and containers, the virtual network (trivial unless you need advanced features), virtual disks, and installer images. There are advanced options like clustering and high availability, but you really don't have to interact with those unless you need them.
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4gb isn't much ram, but it can be surprisingly useful if you configure Zswap. Lots of guides out there. Here's one of them.