…Before I enabled it, much of my security model was based on knowing what each VM or container was supposed to do. That works when you have a tiny setup, and you…
…AMD cards in particular have had a historically inconsistent open-source driver story on older generations, which can make setup on headless servers more complicated than it should be. NVIDIA's proprietary…
…I’ve also configured automated sync tasks to save essential snapshots to an external Proxmox Backup Server (one that runs as a VM on a remote NAS), and the frequency of these…
…server could handle even CLI VMs without buckling under the extra load. And even if it did, I’d rather not waste my power bank’s juice on full-fledged VMs when…
…But arm them with Proxmox , and they turn into highly-capable workstations for server experiments. Proxmox See at Proxmox You can also opt for lightweight NAS or container-only setups Leaving Proxmox…
…Moving to a VM-based Docker setup on Proxmox was an improvement But I still wasn’t making the most of my hardware If you’ve ever used Proxmox, you’re probably…
…Of course, you should encounter faster speeds when accessing the same set of files via your L2ARC setup. But unless you run VMs off a NAS, write databases constantly, or run games…
…My Jellyfin server runs on a Linux VM spinning on a used x86 mini PC without any reverse proxy or SSL certificates. I wanted a predictable configuration that was safer and low…
…There’s a kind of honesty to that setup that virtualization can obscure. When your DNS server is on a tiny box, and your media server is on another, the boundaries are…
…a file server, and Docker containers like Caddy, Redis, Jenkins, and others. The NVMe enables all VMs, LXCs, and containers to spin up quickly. The network-specific Pi setup is lean, and…
