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MMarhoon@marhoons
🤕 I could’ve rented a VPS or amp, used managed platform or kept everything on my Mac. Instead, I bought a mini PC. Not because I needed another server! Because I wanted a playground I could own, break, rebuild, and keep improving!…
Mathias Karstädt@webmatze
I’d put Proxmox on your mini PC because it basically turns your tiny box into a full home lab. Every project or service gets its own VM or LXC, so if you break something while testing, it only takes down that one thing. You could run n8n, Immich, a test DB and a side project all side by side on the same machine. Spinning up a fresh VM for a quick experiment takes about a minute. 🤷‍♂️

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MMarhoon
Proxmox great but my goal wasn’t to build full homelab. Isolated every single layer, I wanted a simple native Linux development environment similar to hosting and Herd as example. NGINX, PHP, databases, Redis, and tooling running directly on Ubuntu. No VM management/ extra…