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Rock Bollinger's avatar

@Yellow Tail Tech , @J.M. Gooding , @Mahmoud Owies - you may find this somewhat interesting!

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Yellow Tail Tech's avatar

The Optiplex choice makes perfect sense for a low-power, capable home server.

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Rock Bollinger's avatar

Thanks! And if I ever need more storage, I can just attach an external drive via USB.

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Yellow Tail Tech's avatar

That’s the beauty of it, simple, efficient, and expandable when needed.

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Mahmoud Owies's avatar

Thank you so much for sharing this!!

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J.M. Gooding's avatar

EXCELLENT work, my dude. I'll have a cuppa Yorkshire black in your honor (yeah, we can get that over here in the colonies).

So yeah, LXC containers are just like sandboxed virtual environments, really. Think anaconda or Python venv, sort of. The advantage to these is you can nuke them without blowing away your entire box, unlike installing stuff on bare metal. I mean, aside from the security advantages. Proxmox also allows VMs, which means you can even run a full Linux distro (or windows) on the same machine!

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Rock Bollinger's avatar

Thanks buddy! And thanks again for the inspiration!

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