So I finally finished gathering the hardware for my first real homelab. I currently have a pi that I run nginx, searxng, and pihole, but I’m looking to move to something more hefty. I’ll probably leave pihole and nginx on the pi. I’m wanting to set up plex to host things for home use as well as a way to store photos, Documents, etc locally. Ideally my friends and I play games like valheim and icarus and I would like to be able to use a vm or container to host game servers when needed.
My hardware currently consists of an amd 4650g pro, 16gig ddr4, amd a520 mobo and 2 1tb m2s.
My question is I’m considering setting up proxmox for this but I wanted to see advice before I go to far. Is there a more preferred option? I’m not too hung up on cost but ideally I don’t want anything to run through like a host page off my network or something. And I would like something that will allow me to expand storage since 2tb isn’t really a lot
I’ve been starting my first homelab with proxmox and think it’s an excellent choice, but keep in mind even the best hypervisor software has a learning curve. Granted, I was having hardware issues, but it took me a long time to troubleshoot my setup when things were failing just because there’s a lot going on in the background.
I wouldn’t recommend anything else honestly, but just keep in mind you might not get it right the first time and that’s ok.
My only advice is to make sure you have backups of anything valuable, that way if you’re like me and something goes wrong, you don’t lose your media collection when the drive goes bad 🤡
