Current running one box with Proxmox split into several VMs:

  • 1 core devoted to HTPC VM
  • 2 cores devoted to Linux VM for hosting game servers
  • 1 core devoted to Portainer and ~25 containers
  • 1 core reserved for running VMs for fun (Windows, different Linux distros)

My main concern is with my Portainer machine handling quite a bit at this point. I haven’t noticed any performance degradation yet, but I’m wondering if I could benefit from introducing another machine to my homelab to host some services.

How do you tend to organize, separate, and split resources between your hosted services? What steps did you take to begin growing your homelab? Next big step for me is getting an HDD enclosure to serve out more storage then my one HDD allows, but I’m posing this question from a CPU/RAM resources perspective.

  • randomcoww@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 måneder siden

    I’ve been downsizing.

    A few years ago I had three Xeon E5 rack servers with 64GB of RAM each and a bunch of HDDs.

    I then cut it down to three mini PCs with 16GB of RAM each.

    Just recently I cut it down even further to just my single Linux desktop running Kubernetes in the background.

    Why? I realized that my interests are all on the software side and more hardware doesn’t contribute much to improving my experience either building or using the lab.

    I also tend to make improvements in my software stack when resources are more restricted and my lab became so much more reliable and efficient over the years.