How do you set up a server? Do you do any automation or do you just open up an SSH session and YOLO? Any containers? Is docker-compose enough for you or are you one of those unicorns who had no issues whatsoever with rootless Podman? Do you use any premade scripts or do you hand craft it all? What distro are you building on top of?
I’m currently in process of “building” my own server and I’m kinda wondering how “far” most people are going, where do y’all take any shortcuts, and what do you spend effort getting just right.
3 Proxmox machines, and an offsite windows machine/fileserver.
2 of the Proxmox machines are small low power machines hosting critical VMs (Omada SDN, Pihole, security, etc). The 3rd Proxmox machine is a cse846 w/ Plex/openmediavault/high performance applications running on it. There are 2 2U UPSs connected to an ATS which sends power to the servers. When the primary UPS is drained, the cse846 machine shuts down to extend the uptime of the two low power machines.
All VMs use the openmediavault VM to store files (camera recordings, plex media, etc.). The Openmediavault VM automatically backs itself up to the offsite windows machine using Syncthing.