After a weekend of testing on a beater computer, I finally transitioned my media server over to ProxMox yesterday. It was a real trial to get the drives mounted to the VM correctly without erasing them, but an hour of googling got me to a working solution. Now that I’ve had a few hours to experience it all working correctly…
This thing is amazing. It gives me such a technology boner just to look at all the info it puts at your fingertips, plus I’m getting much better performance out of some programs after isolating them. Only complaint is the subscription pop up, but I’ll live.
So if you’ve been on the fence about making the switch like I was, I can definitely say you should do it. This is a ridiculously useful tool for any computer enthusiast.
I have tried Docker and some alternatives, but I think I’m too stupid to understand them. Proxmox is really straightforward and relatively noob friendly. It’s also very reliable. It just works every time.
Look here for more boner:
https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/
Lots of simple scripts to set up new stuff, remove annoyances, easy updates…
I have switched from bare metal running on Rpi4 to proxmox and I’ve been super, super happy with it. Things like snapshots and backups make everything a breeze, and it’s really solid.
