Yeah, couldn't resist the sticker :D
I'm all on SSDs since I don't need that much storage, so 2.5 is what I need anyways. There's a 3x ZFS mirror of 1.8TB SSDs in there, 4th bay is currently empty.
K8S is a whole different approach and I find it to be a lot more complex, but you would not need virtual machines. If all your applications are running in containers anyways, you could consider it. Finding a good solution for persistent storage is probably the most important design decision.
What do you actually need to run on your server? I'd look into downsizing. A single small form factor computer or even a newer Raspi can do a lot these days.
Oh that sucks! One would think that after that long, it'd be somewhat established.
Die sind nicht angeschlossen, die zählen nicht!
Thanks a lot for your response! I too was a bit misguided by the way Proxmox presents LXCs but I'm mostly on VMs and haven't explored LXCs further so far.
What's your motivation for the switch? Second time in a short while I've heard about people migrating to incus.
I think auto update is perfectly fine, just check out what kind of versioning the devs are using and pin the part of the version that will introduce breaking changes.
I think the biggest instance, lemmy.world, not being operated by the Lemmy devs is also a good health indicator - on every other Fedi service I can think of, the server run by the devs is the biggest by far.
Idk about you but I use pinterest to find inspo for all kinds of things. For that to work, the posts need extensive hashtagging/indexing that goes beyond the occasional hashtag on Mastodon I think. In Pinterest, I really want their Algorithm to find the stuff I don't know yet I'm looking for. If that kind of search existed, we wouldn't need a specific Pinterest clone I guess - maybe a topic-board thing on Pixelfed would be enough if the indexing would be sufficient.
Oh cool! Wheels are definitely a good idea. I thought about a UPS but our grid is super stable and apparently they cause their own problems now and then.