Proxmox

The next step for me getting started with Proxmox was to add a bit more storage. The bundled 256GB SSDs are great for the basics, but I’m mainly concerned with the longevity of them (considering they are already well used!) and generally the fact that it’s not really that much space. Amazon to the rescue with some 1TB NVMe drives on sale for £59 which is an absolute bargain. I had to go with NVMe drives as it was the only spare slot for storage available in the miniature nodes I picked up (covered in my last article). They are not high performance drives but they will suffice for my use cases. ...

So I’ve been wanting to expand my home server hosting capabilities. I’ve got a load of things I host at home. Just a few of them are: I run the controller for my home SDN (software defined network), which probably warrants a post of it’s own, in Docker! I personally run TP-Link Omada hardware. I host a GitLab runner, to allow me to run CI for my jobs in GitLab for free! I run Owncloud so I can have my own ‘Dropbox’ at home (with terabytes of storage!) Tautulli which is a monitor for my Plex server. So to that end… I bought a job lot of mini PCs off eBay. I was partially inspired by the ServeTheHome Project TinyMiniMicro series (one of their excellent articles is here), as well as some YouTubers experience with Raspberry Pi clusters. I thought about picking up one of the Raspberry Pi racks available for 4-5 Pis (I had my eye on this one for a while…) but at the end of the day, I feel I need more power than is available in your standard Raspberry Pi. ...