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 😊

  • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    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:

    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.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      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.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 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.