Nuc?

My 13 yr old Pentium that houses my untangle server died. I'd like to buy an intel celeron NUC and use it but not sure if it will work. I would use the built in NIC for internal connections and buy a USB 3.0 to ethernet adapter to connect it to the cable modem. I'd buy a 30 or 60 gb mSATA ssd for it to load Untangle on. Would this work? Has anyone done it?

Also, could I use the built in WiFi as an access point for wireless clients? Or would I need to use a separate WAP?

This is for a home application. 6-8 users. 25-30 wired and wireless clients connected at any given time.

thx.