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1. matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 02:44:51 JST matthew - retroedge.tech
   I've heard conflicting experience about using #ProxMox for production. I've met quite a few people that really like it and use it to host business websites and services.
   
   I've seen comments here on the fediverse to the effect of "if you use ProxMox for real work, you are not a good enough #sysadmin".
   
   I am looking to use it to host basic PHP websites, web based services and email. Is ProxMox the best thing ever? Or a huge mistake?
   
   If you have experience with this topic, please do weigh in with a reply!
   • :apa: スプリットショックウイルス † (splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 02:44:51 JST :apa: スプリットショックウイルス †

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     @matthew

     It's fine for regular use. The other alternative is XCP-ng which is the Production™ Ready™ Hypervisor™ Stack™.

     Proxmox uses KVM which is good
     XCP-ng uses Xen which is also good.

     Proxmox has a frontend, Xen doesn't.

     XCP-ng is more like Esxi and is headless.

     Level1Techs and Lawrence systems has info on both, you need to weigh in based on your own situation.

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   • † top dog :pedomustdie: (dcc@annihilation.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Oct-2023 02:48:35 JST † top dog :pedomustdie:

     in reply to
     @matthew The sentiment comes from that most people who use proxmox have never really setup a server than proxmox. You can in fact use kvm just by the command line or you can use xsp-ng but im not familiar on it