[levinb]

I am actually starting to think about using European services (Hetzner?) for some things just to have some sort of legal framework that offers plausible control of my data. I already use paid email.

I mostly trust that something running in a VM is not accessible or abused when I sign a contract - I just don't want to use 30 SaaS services that require me to allow data consumption from me and my customers.

Can you compare Proxmoc to just running small VMs or a container on a bare-metal hosting provider?

[sandreas]

I tried a lot of self-hosted solutions for my homelab. Pretty much all of them were very time consuming and had minor restrictions I did not want to have.

However, Proxmox provided a 'framework' that seemed superior:

- Having ZFS as a filesystem to easily revert to a previous state [1] [2]

- Makes possible using docker within an additional 'security layer' (LXC)

- Having easy integrated backup and restore

- Being scalable, if I had to

- Not focussing 'fancy new technologies' (k8s, etc.), but established ones (qemu, LXC)

[1]: https://pilabor.com/series/proxmox/restore-virtual-machine-v...

[2]: https://xai.sh/2018/08/27/zfs-incremental-backups.html