I have 4 home servers. 1 running pfsense, 1 running truenas, 1 running proxmox, and 1 is a cloud key gen2 for unifi that I got for free
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Ubuntu LTS because that's what I was most comfortable with at the time, now I'd really like to switch over to Debian but I'm not sure I can be bothered until I really have to, everything is working well at the moment. It's running in Proxmox.
- XCP-ng on my virtualization host
- TrueNAS Core on my NAS
- Ubuntu Server on my Jellyfin media server
- Debian on my other server that I use for testing purposes
- DietPi on my Raspberry Pi
I'm currently on ubuntu and fedora. I'd love to try coreos
Debian with Yunohost.
Windows Hyper-V Server on the host with most of the VM's split between Ubuntu and Debian. I also have two Windows VM's that I keep out of necessity.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| ESXi | VMWare virtual machine hypervisor |
| Git | Popular version control system, primarily for code |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| LTS | Long Term Support software version |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage |
| RPi | Raspberry Pi brand of SBC |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| ZFS | Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity |
| k8s | Kubernetes container management package |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
15 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.
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Proxmox with latest Debian i guess, but all virtual machines are on Ubuntu 23.10. It's just the easiest to install things on, and have a semi-recent kernel, even though I would never use it on the desktop.
I actually wanted to run arch in the vms but I couldn't find any image with the latest arch. The latest I found was with kernel 6.3.
I have several servers I’ve acquired over the years setup in a proxmox cluster
Fedora Server
hypervisor: proxmox
vms: rhel 9.2
Ubuntu server w/ zfs on the main.
Have a little atom hp home server at my parents house that uses almost no power, that runs freebsd x86, zerotier one, and kopia. Free cloud backup 😁
Fedora Server, with most of the services I need running via Docker.
My setup consists of the following:
Unraid, most services I self host run in docker here. Things like plex/jellyfin, nextcloud, unifi could controller.
Proxmox, used to virtualize my pfsense after I moved away from my unifi USG router. A few Linux and Debian headless virtual machines run here as well. Had pihole virtualized here as well but switched over to pfBlockerNG to consolidate.
TrueNAS, all my media shares. I also sync my desktop environments here to have a consistent windows desktop across my desktops and laptops.
Home assistant running on home assistant yellow. Runs a few add-on services.
Ubuntu and WinServer2019 vms split over a proxmox-machine and server2019-hyperv-machine
2 each for replication.
A few actually.
Rocky Linux 9, XCP-NG, Windows server 2022 datacenter
Different usecasses.
Arch which is great, but I want to move to FreeBSD or Proxmox for security reasons
TrueNAS, and Debian
Proxmox, Openmediavault, Ubuntu Server. Mostly because I'm lazy and I grew up using Ubuntu.
Mythbuntu. It started its life as a MythTV server.
Arch for stuff I have physical access to. Nothing's ever gone wrong, so it's worth it for the immediate updates and consistency with my other systems. For VPS I use Debian though, occasionally the unstable/Sid branch if I really need the latest updates. There are almost always Debian images available on a VPS.
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Alpine on Pi4.
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LMDE on recycled AMD systems (phenoms, opterons, FM2 APUs, oh and a recently dead bulldozer fx-8150).
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TrueNAS, OPNsense on dedicated hardware.
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VMware ESXi on my older workstations (currently transitioning toward LXD/Incus and ~~XPG-ng~~ XCP-ng with Xen Orchestra).
You mean XCP-ng?
Yes, 😅. Thank you for letting me know.
I typed correctly I'm pretty sure, but typing it again now it autocorrects to "C - C - P" now 🫤. Even more confused.
I'll edit my original post.