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Being a noob and all I was wondering whats the real benefit of having a monolithic lets say proxmox instance with router, DNS, VPN but also home asssistant and NAS functionalitiy all in one server? I always thought dedicated devices are simpler to maintain or replace and some services are also more critical than others I guess?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Its the difference between running home things and having the money to run datacenter reliability.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Having everything on just a few VM hosts is so much easier, cheaper, and efficient. It's eventually a bigger investment though. The days of bare-metal are long gone!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Sorry, I think you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. You can surely that, but if the host goes down, everything goes down. Single point of failure.