- proxmox hits an SSD pretty hard, continuously. I think with zfs, it probably hits even harder. A lot of it is every second keeping state for a cluster, even if you have only one machine.
- I bought mikrotik routers for openwrt. I tried out routeros, but it seemed to phone home. So I got openwrt going and didn't look back. I am switching to zyxel since you can have an openwrt switch with up to 48-ports.
- I used to run small things on a pi, but after getting proficient at proxmox, they've been moved to a vm or container.
- the most wonderful milestone in self-hosting was when I got vlans set up. Having vlans that stayed 100% in the house was huge.
- next good milestone was setting up privoxy. Basically a proxy with a whitelist. All the internal vlan machines could update, but no nonsense.
- it is also nice to browse the web with a browser pointing at privoxy. You'd be surprised at the connections your browser will make. Firefox internally phones home all. the. time.
I've been curious about a running something proxmox-like for a while, but I really want something a little more "hackable" without learning an entirely new system for managing configurations, yet still has an intuitive interface that people that don't understand all layers of the stack very well can still use without having to feel reliant on the others. I'm curious if you or others have any thoughts on that. It's probably too specific and complicated to exist.
a couple points
- proxmox hits an SSD pretty hard, continuously. I think with zfs, it probably hits even harder. A lot of it is every second keeping state for a cluster, even if you have only one machine.
- I bought mikrotik routers for openwrt. I tried out routeros, but it seemed to phone home. So I got openwrt going and didn't look back. I am switching to zyxel since you can have an openwrt switch with up to 48-ports.
- I used to run small things on a pi, but after getting proficient at proxmox, they've been moved to a vm or container.
- the most wonderful milestone in self-hosting was when I got vlans set up. Having vlans that stayed 100% in the house was huge.
- next good milestone was setting up privoxy. Basically a proxy with a whitelist. All the internal vlan machines could update, but no nonsense.
- it is also nice to browse the web with a browser pointing at privoxy. You'd be surprised at the connections your browser will make. Firefox internally phones home all. the. time.