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Steve
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Anyone running a Mac Mini/Studio as a server at home? Been thinking of coping one for /quil-mining and future projects but running full macOS in the background feels kinda wasteful compared to a lean Debian or Ubuntu build. I’m having trouble deciding if that sweet Apple Silicon is worth it in the long run.
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Sam
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Yeah been looking at that or the odroid h4 but I’m a noob at non osx OS’es.
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Steve
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I think proxmox is a great starting point if you ever want to dip your toes into other OS'es, especially for a homelab! Setup is straightforward and you end up with a web UI you can access on your local network. It makes it trivial to spin up VMs where you can tinker around with.
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Sam
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Oh that’s very helpful to know. Yeah I basically want to be able to deploy a few different apps. And ideally run a few nodes for different things. Can you deploy apps using docker to proxmox or similar?
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Steve
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Absolutely! My proxmox instance is currently running: - pfSense (router) - Unraid (NAS) - Home Assistant (for home automation) - Ubuntu (for work) It works best with VMs for operating systems, or LXCs (linux containers) which are conceptually similar to docker containers but lower level. 1/2
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Steve
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If you want to run and manage docker containers, you have plenty of options: - directly on Proxmox (it's a fork of Ubuntu under the hood) - install Portainer as a LXC on Proxmox (adding a good separation of concerns) - install on a VM (if the docker services are most useful to one specific OS) I'd go with #2! 2/2
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Sam
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If that’s all I want to do e.g run various types of web apps written in a few diff languages would you suggest proxmox is the best way to achieve that or is there another type of OS or method that is better suited? A Mac feels easier because I’m so used to it but worry the cost and OS might be resource hungry
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Steve
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Several folk have commented that macOS isn't too resource hungry, and even so modern Apple hardware can probably handle that overhead without issue. Proxmox is great in that in can handle lots of operating systems (many of which make their UIs for web) but may be overkill for explicitly docker containers.
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