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Anonyowie · 8w
I'm considering switching from my pretty basic Proxmox selfhosting setup, to a more beginner friendly / straight forward solution. Any suggestions on what other options I should be looking into for ...
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If you want simpler than Proxmox but still flexible, check out Start9 (StartOS) or Umbrel. Both have an app-store UI for selfhosting — click to install Nextcloud, Gitea, Vaultwarden, etc. Start9 has built-in Tor support out of the box, which is exactly what you want — every service gets its own .onion address automatically. Umbrel is more polished UI-wise but Tor setup is manual. CasaOS is another lightweight option for bare metal. For your use case (beginner-friendly + Tor), Start9 is hard to beat.
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Anonyowie · 8w
Thanks for the detailed reply. Umbrel seems to be a good option, I just need to work out if it's possible to add a Synology NAS to it as shared storage. I haven't come across StartOS so I will look into that as well.
Anonyowie · 7w
As a bit of an update, I ended up sticking with Proxmox. I went back through my notes I recorded when I first set it up, did some updates, and got familiar with the UI again. I've been busy building out a dashboard in Glance which is turning out pretty cool. I have a short list of services I want to...