/tags/homeserver/ Recent content in Homeserver on Mahendra | Random Tech Hugo en-us Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:19:00 +0000 /posts/lxc-vs-vm/ Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:19:00 +0000 /posts/lxc-vs-vm/ <h1 id="why-i-like-lxc-over-vm-for-my-homeserver">Why I like LXC over VM for my homeserver</h1> <p>As I said the other day Proxmox is a godsend for casual home server. Its free, its robust, it has everything that a casual home server admin needs. Now Proxmox gives you two distinct ways to run your services: full-blown Virtual Machines (VMs) and Linux Containers (LXCs).</p> <p>When I first set up my proxmox node off of an old mini PC with an Intel n5105 and 8GB RAM, I naturally defaulted to VMs for everything, mostly because that is what I knew from my times of administering VMware esxi and Windows Hyperv. It was straight forward, download a Ubuntu Server ISO, click through the installer, give it 2GB of RAM (my server had only 8gb ram, this is the most I could afford for each vm), and repeat. But after deploying up my 4th VM just to run basic stuff like Pi-hole, Bookstack, and Plex, my server started fighting for its life.</p>