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Having electric stability issues this week in Bangkok - several 2-3 hour outages, which are too long for a UPS to cover the gap. I have several mid range but older PCs running docker, virtualbox, etc for various things including a postfix server for the family email, immich, QBittorrent, pihole, paperless, huly, postiz, a Minecraft bedrock server, a flightradar24 ads-b collector, and a variety of other homegrown projects.

Thinking about getting some or most of this over to a service like hetzner, perhaps even splurging on a baremetal dedicated system.

Recently I’ve been reading about/trying to learn qemu and proxmox, but don’t understand them yet. Is that where it’s at for managing a bunch of your own VMs? Or kubernetes/k8s?

I’ve been a little out of the loop for a few years and of course coming back up to speed IT wise judge take weeks. Looking for recommendations on offloading my home stuff to a cloud that I control.

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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

proxmox

You will enjoy Proxmox. When you get it all jammy, check out the Proxmox Helper Scripts: community-scripts.github.io/ProxmoxVE/

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catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Proxmox runs Qemu under the hood. It’s the current favorite for VM management.

I wouldn’t bother with k8s unless you’re deploying services in high availability, or groups of related containers.

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tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
K8S is a whole different approach and I find it to be a lot more complex, but you would not need virtual machines. If all your applications are running in containers anyways, you could consider it. Finding a good solution for persistent storage is probably the most important design decision.

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MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’ve used a RV/Marine deep cycle battery attached to a UPS before, that would certainly give you enough for 2-3 hours on most setups.

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irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Thinking about getting some or most of this over to a service like hetzner, perhaps even splurging on a baremetal dedicated system.

If I may, I find LUXVPS to be quite capable and responsive hosts.

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I’ve never used Hetzner, and I don’t know what you are hosting, but I’m sold on LuxVPS. I also use Contabo, and Ethernet Services. The latter would indeed be bare-bare-metal as there are no frills. However, for a test server and for $35 a year, it works.
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