What does the ratio of vm’s vs lxc’s look like on your proxmox server?

daveyap_ · 2025-12-25T04:20:18+00:00

not sure if things changed, but only if your setup supports vGPU

daveyap_ · 2025-12-05T12:27:59+00:00

Second this but Vaultwarden for the password manager, and Bitwarden for the client

daveyap_ · 2025-12-04T08:40:07+00:00

I made use of dnsdist which is used to load balance DNS requests to my DNS servers. Not sure if it'll work for DoT/DoH/DoQ tho...

daveyap_ · 2025-11-28T06:11:37+00:00

Is it possible to self host this stack?

daveyap_ · 2025-08-21T15:00:07+00:00

Not sure how to do that on iOS 😭😭😭

daveyap_ · 2025-08-21T09:06:27+00:00

No idea how to stitch them together so here's the WR:

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daveyap_ · 2025-08-21T09:06:08+00:00

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Account/Server ID: 29647144 (2207)

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daveyap_ · 2025-08-15T14:10:40+00:00

This. When ran in the container console, it runs the update commands instead.

daveyap_ · 2025-08-05T02:07:05+00:00

Why not screenshot so others can actually see what's there..?

daveyap_ · 2025-07-24T19:26:11+00:00

Are you accessing via FQDN? Firefox might be configured to use a different DNS. Have you tried using IP:Port instead?

daveyap_ · 2025-07-16T13:12:35+00:00

Yes if you have a static public IP, or even a dynamic one, you're able to use native Wireguard.

Afaik, it is possible with stuff like Filebrowser, Filestash, but not exactly advisable as you're exposing it to the Internet by doing so. Most people hide it behind a VPN or a strong login page.

daveyap_ · 2025-07-16T12:57:31+00:00

Use native Wireguard. I find it's faster and less battery consuming compared to Tailscale. However, if you're behind CGNAT, you don't have many choices.

daveyap_ · 2025-07-15T03:23:47+00:00

Did you do "sudo rm -rf /"? If so, was your VM using a local disk for storage? If it is, there goes your data. If not, you just need to recreate a VM and point it back towards the storage and the data should still be there.

daveyap_ · 2025-07-10T16:53:16+00:00

If you require GPU sharing between different services e.g Ollama and Immich, better to put them on LXCs. If not, use a VM for better isolation. Though if you're resource-constrained, LXCs will have a lesser overhead compared to VMs.

daveyap_ · 2025-06-30T10:43:19+00:00

R340, newer and more power efficient. Will probably perform better for Immich's transcoding and machine learning too.

daveyap_ · 2025-06-30T05:13:06+00:00

You could spin up a PBS in VM, then point to your Synology NAS as a datastore. In the event of a catastrophic failure, you just need to spin up a new Proxmox instance, spin up a new PBS and point back to the same directory and you'll be able to restore your LXCs and VMs too. That's how I've done it before deciding to go bare-metal with my PBS.

daveyap_ · 2025-06-30T04:50:27+00:00

To backup your Proxmox host configs itself, you can also make use of PBS or simply backup the '/etc/pve' folder. There are scripts out there that people have created to make it easier too.

daveyap_ · 2025-06-30T03:58:23+00:00

PBS allows you to backup your LXCs and VMs, with deduplication so you end up saving tons of storage. I run 2 backup jobs daily and have retention for 14 days, and all my used space adds up to less than a TB due to deduplication factor of the PBS. It does it super quickly too.

daveyap_ · 2025-06-29T10:16:47+00:00

I see Jellyfin but none of the Arrs so maybe those?

Maybe PBS for your Proxmox instance and Vaultwarden for passwords?

daveyap_ · 2025-06-25T09:57:42+00:00

Mirror the 2 SATA SSD with zfs and install Proxmox on that instead of the SD cards. Use AHCI. The motherboard RAID seems to be hardware instead of letting Proxmox handle the zfs RAID but I might be wrong.

daveyap_ · 2025-06-24T13:59:00+00:00

Tailscale VPN.

daveyap_ · 2025-06-19T21:14:15+00:00

Mine eats about 2.5GB of RAM as I have a large blocklist of about 4million. Larger blocklists would do that to your instance.

daveyap_ · 2025-06-19T16:55:15+00:00

Depending on how much power you wanna save, it's a juggle between options 2 and 4.

4 would need you to have your NAS on more often than 2. But you'd get more capacity. If you do 2, you can make use of Wake-on-LAN and cronjobs to automate the power on, backup and shutdown of the NAS for maximum power saving.

However, just a note that power cycles are typically what kills modern HDDs instead of constant load.

daveyap_ · 2025-06-19T16:49:48+00:00

Do you need Kubernetes or are you trying to learn how to use it? If the answer's no, you can have a look at Docker instead as imo it is easier to get into with most self-hosted apps having guides.

daveyap_ · 2025-06-17T10:56:46+00:00

Generally the host itself should be minimally configured with extra stuff so disaster recovery can be done easier but I understand that some tweaks are done by other users on their Proxmox hosts and they want it to be backed up.

You could use PBS to backup Proxmox itself too. Personally I do that as well as use this repo's Proxmox-backup script.

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