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Pros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab? (lemmy.linuxuserspace.show)

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Hi all. I was curious about some of the pros and cons of using Proxmox in a home lab set up. It seems like in most home lab setups it’s overkill. But I feel like there may be something I’m missing. Let’s say I run my home lab on two or three different SBCs. Main server is an x86 i5 machine with 16gigs memory and the others are arm devices with 8 gigs memory. Ample space on all. Wouldn’t Proxmox be overkill here and eat up more system resources than just running base Ubuntu, Debian or other server distro on them all and either running the services needed from binary or docker? Seems like the extra memory needed to run the Proxmox software and then the containers would just kill available memory or CPU availability. Am I wrong in thinking that Proxmox is better suited for when you have a machine with 32gigs or more of memory and some sort of base line powerful cpu?

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[-] k_rol@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

$550? For a homelab you should only need to pay €110/year. What am I missing here?

[-] TechnicallyColors@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah it's €110/year here: https://shop.proxmox.com/index.php?rp=/store/proxmox-ve-community

I remember evaluating the price a long time ago and thinking it was too much for disabling a pop-up, and on writing my post I navigated to their site and saw the standard subscription and thought that's what I had looked at a few years back: https://shop.proxmox.com/index.php?rp=/store/proxmox-ve-standard

[-] k_rol@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Ah yes I did the same thing as you as I checked again but from my PC.

I just paid myself the 110 after using it for 2 years. It's not for the popup since I was using a script to remove it. It's more to get the production ready updates. My server has too many important things now, I don't want less tested changes. That and to support the devs.

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