Hey guys!

I have recently joined the selfhosting world after many years of thinking about it. Currently running casaOS with an assortment of containers. Mainly use nextcloud, paperlessNGX, and general file storage.

I am thinking of creating a proxmox cluster. Just wanted to ask for those who do. Is it worth it? And what services are you guys running?

I was thinking of using it for NAS, and a window VM and run other random things that I don’t know yet.

Looking into grabbing some Lenovo M715q. Found a decent deal.

Thank you all in advance.

  • mersh@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Absolutely. You’re going to be paying for more overhead but I’ve never regretting setting up a cluster. I run mine on a t5500, a dl360 gen 6, and a raspberry pi as a witness.

    On the cluster I’m running pfsense, file shares, home assistant, a pihole, and a Debian vm with docker that has containers running radarr, sonarr, watchtower, plex, jackett, and mealie. Also spin up various VMs for testing.

      • mersh@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I switched to moving all of my media services from VMs to containers and haven’t regretted it. Highly recommend that as your approach.

        I left xteve off the list of services as well. Very useful if you plan on doing IPTV.