This is so pretty 😍🤩💦!!

I’ve been considering a micro rack to support the journey, but primarily for house old laptop chassis as I convert them into proxmox resources.

Any thoughts or comments on you choice of this rack?

it’s like, e-waste recycling but cooler.

So, could you add additional old hardware to this “pool” to use as needed?

Pretty much. You just take any old scraps of hardware, throw proxmox on it, and it does the rest. Then you just follow the menu and click through to say how many cores you want, how much RAM, how much HD storage, and what image like its a Taco Bell menu.

In a few seconds you’ve got a new machine spun up with its own IP, which you can remote into from the original machine, or really, any other machine on the network.

I only got into it seriously a few months ago (I’ve self hosted in the past, but it was a PITA), and I was gobsmacked at how easy it was.

Check out this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zngSuqCM4d8

You could literally be up and running in 15 minutes.

Think of it more as a “distro” bazooka.

Its linux, yes. But what it allows you to do is take old machines that you might have left retired, and create “pools” of compute resource, that you can then deploy whatever image floats your boat onto any size machine you like.

Say for example, like me, you have an old System76 Serval. Its a good processor (6 cores, 32gb ram (ddr4), and a 2070. I haven’t used it as a daily driver since 2022.

I put put proxmox on it, and stuck it next to my NAS, close to my router. Then I took 2 cores and 6gb, and installed Ubuntu LTS on it, and then installed coolify. Using coolify I spun up jellyfin, some home assistant stuff, and a postgres for one of my work projects.

Then I took the other 4 cores and 28 gb of RAM and put PopOS to use as a development machine for that work project. It can stay alive as long as the project is going, and then when I’m finished, I can give that compute back to the pool and redeploy it.

It also makes it incredibly easy and fast to test different versions of Linux (or I think you can do windows from an image this way too, but don’t quote me).

Have you tried proxmox yet?

proxmox: bruh I’m just a prompt I can’t really tell you what to do

I would eat their foot for this