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Great news! I started my selfhost journey over a year ago, and I'm finding myself needing better hardware. There's so many services I want that my NAS can't handle. And I unfortunately need to add GPU transcoding to my Jellyfin setup.

What's the best OS for a machine focused on containers and (getting started with) VMs? I've heard Proxmox

What CPU specs should I be concerned about?

I'm willing to buy a pre-built as long as its hardware has sufficient longevity.

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[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is precisely what I do with my nas.

I have 9...ish tiny/mini/micros for compute, two NAS (locally).

Solid approach

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

9? That's quite a bit of compute lol.

My journey started with 1 server, then 4, then 5 (one functioning as a NAS), then 1 (just the NAS box), then I moved and decided to slim it down to a proper NAS and 1 mini PC/NUC clone. Now I'm up to two because the first was an Intel N105 which just isn't up for the challenges lol

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

3 are for the family, 3 are for work stuff, 3 are for me as toys.

(Plus a Mac mini and a p330 as spare desktops for me, thus the -ish)