Cross posted to r/homeserver
proxmox. i fine its very easy to work with and manage. also proxmox backup server is amazing
Debian, I wouldn’t pick another one.
Debian
Debian. All day, everyday.
Debian Stable. Clean, easy, and reliable. Upgrades smoothly without drama.
Debian. I use mostly docker containers and super easy to spin up and manage.
Debian, FreeBSD. Proxmox is awesome for hosting VMs, LXC, and Docker Containers (via a VM).
Arch. No Window Managers or Desktop Environments. Its easy to work with when no extra fluff is installed.
Arch Linux for my primary server. Raspbian for my SBCs.
vSphere 8
good support keeping the compatible packages readily available is one of the feature you might do well with
I really wanted to self host so I wrote my own OS, from scratch.
Unraid for my disks and *arr stack and 3 other Ubuntu LTS boxes for my containers
Proxmox, unraid, pihole ftw
How is proxmox with unraid? I am looking to migrate over to that setup but am worried about how complex it’ll get.
It’s fantastic, though I should add that my Proxmox and Unraid are separate hardware, as with my Raspberry-Pi DNS Servers and Proxmox backup machine.
After started with Unraid a little over a year ago, this motivated me to move to a real hypervisor Unraid can virtualize, dockerize, etc, but has far too many drawbacks to justify the hardware commitments, though it was an excellent starting point.
Add to this, a (custom) DNS and SSL termination, and we well on our way to a proper home lab setup.
It’s worth mentioning that while there are people virtualizing Unraid on Proxmox, that the implications of inter-service dependencies were just not worth the hassles against diversifying backend services.
Next up; UPS, pfSense (router), and forwarding DNS servers on a 10GbE backplane :D
Fedora server + cockpit
solid and simple admin web panel with containers support (via plugin)