I have Ubuntu running now on a VPS so probably will stick with that and plan to run proxmox
What do you think of proxmox?!
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I've never used it, but people deeper into linux than me have mentioned it so... that's... some kind of data point?
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I absolutely recommend a hypervisor! Adding an extra abstraction layer is very powerful & helps to better separate workloads. Sometimes containers are more appropriate, sometimes full vms are, and proxmox gives you the flexibility to do both.
My dayjob uses ESX, and I was able to migrate a vm to proxmox with barely any work.
The gui sucks, but the product is great.
Also, “deeper into Linux than me” lol. That’s bizarre to hear since I’m coming from the windows & related closed source tech stack world 🤣
I have been running Umbrel for over two years on an Ubuntu VM on Proxmox. It's stable, sometimes it runs for months until I reboot after an OS update. However, recently there has been talk of Umbrel frequently sending the server IP address to Umbrel HQ. I am switching to Start9, IBD is running.
Not that you asked me, but I'd stick with Ubuntu unless you're going to be virtualizing, running dockers, etc on the same machine. Proxmox is cool but overkill if you're just running a node. I have a home services server that I tried proxmox, unraid and other hypervisor-type OS's on for a while. I found that starting with an Ubuntu base and building what I needed off of it is much cleaner and more stable. Less shit to break.
So I want to run a node with a LNbits instance, BTC pay server and relay on this machine. Is proxmox necessary in this scenario?