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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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[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

For inspiration, here's my list of services:

Name ID No. Primary Use
heart (Node) ProxMox
guard (CT) 202 AdGuard Home
management (CT) 203 NginX Proxy Manager
smarthome (VM) 804 Home Assistant
HEIMDALLR (CT) 205 Samba/Nextcloud
authentication (VM) 806 BitWarden
mail (VM) 807 Mailcow
notes (CT) 208 CouchDB
messaging (CT) 209 Prosody
media (CT) 211 Emby
music (CT) 212 Navidrome
books (CT) 213 AudioBookShelf
security (CT) 214 AgentDVR
realms (CT) 216 Minecraft Server
blog (CT) 217 Ghost
ourtube (CT) 218 ytdl-sub YouTube Archive
cloud (CT) 219 NextCloud
remote (CT) 221 Rustdesk Server

Here is the overhead for everything. CPU is an i3 6100 and RAM is 2133MHz:

collapsed inline media

Quick note about my setup, some things threw a permissions hissy fit when in separate containers, so Media actually has Emby, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr and two instances of qBittorrent. A few of my containers do have supplementary programs.

[–] modeh@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you, that’s actually quite informative. Gives me a good idea of what could go where in terms of my setup.

So far I recreated my RPi DietPi setup in a VM but for some reason Pi-Hole + Unbound combo is now fucking with my internet connectivity. It is so weird, I assigned it a static lease for the old RPi IP address in OpenWrt and left all the rules in there intact and you would think it would be a “drop-in replacement” but it isn’t. Not sure if Proxmox has some weird firewall situation going on. Definitely need to fuck around more with it to better understand it.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

To piggyback on the permissions hissy fit-

My aar stack, openmediavault, and transmission stack have different usernames mapped to the same uid and it is a pain in the ass. I "fixed it" by making a NAS group that catches them all, but by "fixed it" I really mean "got it working"

So be aware of what uid will own a file and maybe change it to a uid in the 1100+ range to make NFS easier in the future.