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Getting Started with Proxmox (piefed.social)

submitted 9 months ago by modeh@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hello everyone,

I finally managed to get my hands on a Beelink EQ 14 to upgrade from the RPi running DietPi that I have been using for many years to host my services.

I have always was interested in using Proxmox and today is the day. Only problem is I am not sure where to start. For example, do you guys spin up a VM for every service you intend to run? Do you set it up as ext4, btrfs, or zfs? Do you attach external HDD/SSD to expand your storage (beyond the 2 PCIe slots in the Beelink in this example).

I’ve only started reading up on Proxmox just today so I am by no means knowledgeable on the topic

I hope to hear how you guys setup yours and how you use it in terms of hosting all your services (nextcloud, vaultwarden, cgit, pihole, unbound, etc…) and your ”Dos and Don’ts“

Thank you 😊

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You have that new machine to play with. So do it.

Install it and play around. If you do nothing that should "last forever" in these first days, you can tear it down and do it again in different ways.

I have recently played in the same way with the proxmox unattended install feature, and it was a lot fun. One text file and a bootable image on a stick.

[–] modeh@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, absolutely will do. Was simply hoping to get an idea of how self-hosters who’ve been using it for a while now set it up to get a rough picture of where I want to be once I am done screwing around with it.

[–] nis@feddit.dk 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I've been doing it for a couple of years. I don't think I'll ever be done screwing around with it.

Embrace the flux :)