I'm intrigued, as your recent comment history keeps taking aim at Proxmox. What did you find questionable about them? My servers boot just fine, and I haven't had any failures.
I'm not uninterested in genuinely better alternatives, but I don't have a compelling reason to go to the level of effort required to replace Proxmox.
No headaches here - running a two node cluster with about 40 LXCs, many of them using Docker, and an OPNsense VM. It's been flawless for me.
Something about Magic Earth unsettles me. It appears highly polished, but free. It's not clear how they're making enough money to stay afloat.
Also, crowd-sourced realtime traffic is only as good as the crowd it's sourcing from. I'm speculating, but I somehow doubt there's a big enough crowd using Magic Earth where I am.
Might be time to look into Proxmox. There's a fun weekend project for you!
Yep, 100% the same. Hate it. It's no biggie for me, though - I'm really the only one who wants 4K content, and I only want it for the stuff that really matters to me.
I have kids that like to stream on their own devices, and they're not all 4K. Saves my server from overworking itself by not having to transcode.
If you’re only watching on 1 TV, I don’t think there’s any reason to keep them a separate 4k library
The only problem is that Radarr doesn't support multiple copies/editions. You need to run two Radarr instances.
Yes - I have two separate instances of Radarr, each storing their movies in dedicated top-level folders ("Movies" and "Movies-4k").
Overseerr is used to manage requests, with all 1080p requests being automatically approved, and 4K requests requiring my approval (so I can be frugal with NAS space).
Plex merges both folders into a single Movies library, where I can play either resolution of a given movie (assuming both resolutions exist).
I mean, I'm going to give Monsieur Spade a try. But not because of some shitty streaming service recommendation like this - that's terrible.
It's about fitness for purpose, IMO.
I recently migrated most of my homelab to Proxmox running on a pair of x86 boxes. I did it because I was cutting the streaming cord, and wanted to build a beefy Plex capability for myself. I also wanted to virtualise my router/firewall with OPNsense.
Once I mastered Proxmox, and truly came to appreciate both the clean separation of services and the rapid prototyping capability it gave me, I migrated a lot of my homelab over.
But, I still use RasPis for a few purposes: Frigate server, second Pi-hole instance, backup Wireguard server. I even have one dedicated to hosting temperature sensors, reed switches, and webcams for our pet lizard's enclosure.
Each has their place for me.
I switched to using using Obtainium to install directty from dev repos as much as possible, and am adding Fossify's projects as they release. IMO, It's the best way to ensure you get the app you want, without letting middle-men push their agenda or mine your data.
OK, I can definitely see how your professional experiences as described would lead to this amount of distrust. I work in data centres myself, so I have plenty of war stories of my own about some of the crap we've been forced to work with.
But, for my self-hosted needs, Proxmox has been an absolute boon for me (I moved to it from a pure RasPi/Docker setup about a year ago).
I'm interested in having a play with LXD/Incus, but that'll mean either finding a spare server to try it on, or unpicking a Proxmox node to do it. The former requires investment, and the latter is pretty much a one-way decision (at least, not an easy one to rollback from).
Something I need to ponder...