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I like proxmox.
What's the elevator pitch?
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“It’s debian with a webui”
you have my attention
What the other person said.
If you have enough resources to run everything as a vm and wanna use a webui that starts at “data center” and lets you drill your tree down from that then you’ll have a good time. You can get good at having big buckets of resources and allocating them to little VMs, or figuring out where the bottleneck is or whatever.
If you have a casio wristwatch that hosts your stuff the. It’s probably gonna be too much though.
That's pretty much the whole pitch. I think its bigger value might be in clustering multiple proxmox machines together and being able to load balance services across different host servers, but I haven't done anything with that.
The UI provides an easy interface for spinning up containers/VMs and doing networking shit. Otherwise it's just Debian. I was surprised how easily I got my old proxmox machine which hadn't been switched on since 2019 upgraded to a currently supported version. Was something like 5 consecutive full system upgrades and I didn't expect it to go smoothly but it did.
Basic use case: i want a NAS that will serve up a time machine volume
Is this overkill?
Perhaps. But if you have the resources (I'm running an n100 with 16g ram and it can handle a lot, thanks to Linux containers having very low overhead) then proxmox means you can easily add another function later. There are a few self-hosted services that suddenly stop seeming like too much hassle once you already have a virtualization platform with web UI. Maybe you decide you want a torrent client, or a home assistant installation, or next cloud etc etc