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Proxmox Clusters worth it? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys!

I have recently joined the selfhosting world after many years of thinking about it. Currently running casaOS with an assortment of containers. Mainly use nextcloud, paperlessNGX, and general file storage.

I am thinking of creating a proxmox cluster. Just wanted to ask for those who do. Is it worth it? And what services are you guys running?

I was thinking of using it for NAS, and a window VM and run other random things that I don't know yet.

Looking into grabbing some Lenovo M715q. Found a decent deal.

Thank you all in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Proxmox is all I use for VM hosting, it is well worth it IMO, I colo metal and I host several virtual machines on it, webservers, ircds, kbin, etc. I specifically use Virtual Machines (KVM) however, it does have the ability to do containerization too (LXC).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok sweet! What are you running currently on them?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

gitlab, several docker containers, kbin, ircds, a bouncer, 3-4 web servers, a couple seperate mysql servers, Handshake DNS hosting and Handshake nodes

[–] sneakyninjapants 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, I wish I could find a good colo solution that wouldn't kill me with fees. VPS isn't bad cost-wise, but I'd really like to be able to throw as much hardware as I want at it without paying $1k/mo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use Dacentec, their colo prices are really reasonable and start @ $40/month, it is well worth it when you have your own hardware and you can load whatever you want in it. I've had no issues with uptime or stability either.

[–] sneakyninjapants 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info! I'll definitely check them out. You can fit quite a bit of compute in 1U these days. And $40/mo is far more decently priced than other colo solutions I've seen on the west coast.