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[Question] Proxmox, xcp-ng, or something else? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by phase_change@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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So, I’ve been self-hosting for decades, but on physical hardware. I’ve had things like MythTV and an asterisk voip system, but those have been abandoned for years. I’ve got a web server, but it’s serving static content that’s only viewed by bots and attackers.

My mail server, that’s been active for more than two decades is still in active use.

All of this makes me weird in the self-hosted community.

About a month ago, I put in a beefy system for virtualization with the intent to start branching out the self hosting. I primarily considered Proxmox and xcp-ng. I went with xcp-ng, primarily because it seems to have more enterprise features. I’m early enough in my exploration that switching isn’t a problem.

For those of you more advanced in a home-lab hypervisor, what did you go with and why? Right now, I’m pretty agnostic. I’m comfortable with xcp-ng but have no problems switching. I’m particularly interested in opinions that have a particularly negative view of one or the other, so long as you explain why.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 years ago

If you don't actually want to allow external untrusted people accessing your server, why go the VM route? That seems like a huge waste of resources and just complicates things compared to using containers (Podman is best IMHO).

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[–] Limeade3425@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I like Promox for home, and XCP-NG for work. I'm just significantly more resource constrained at the house then work, so container management in the main interface is nice. At work, everything is a VM with containers on top (when needed)