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What operating system do you use for your home server? I’m planning to do unraid but what are the other options and why would you pick one or another? (alien.top)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

VMware esxi. The only one I tried, and it works amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ESXi here too, on consumer hardware.

Ubuntu Server for Docker hosts.

TrueNAS for.. NAS.

All on one server.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do you put your router in ESXi or is that a separate box?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I have Sophos UTM running flawlessly in a VM on ESXi.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You should try Proxmox. It's better in almost every way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

When Broadcom finally kill them and you're sick of their bullshit, switch to Proxmox

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Same here. A bunch of Ubuntu/docker and windows VMs running on one host, it’s great.