FreeBSD

Proxmox or Debian minimal!

Ubuntu server with ansible playbook and docker services

Fedora Kinoite + podman

I really wanted to self host so I wrote my own OS, from scratch.

unRAID is fantastic. I used to use it as a monolith server, now it acts as my NAS.

I currently run a Kubernetes cluster on a handful of Ubuntu server nodes.

Home serVER? Like ONE? 😅

windows server, I don't like raid software

Proxmox, Debian containers.

I use Debian stable just because I'm so familiar with Linux

Almalinux period. Use smb for fileshares, rsync for backups and docker for everything else.

Harvester HCI

I tried Unraid - left due to annoyance of losing server function when I had to take drive arrays down and only scrubbing on demand

Went to True Nas scale for the promise of ZFS and liked it, but had issues with the interface and getting GPU passthrough to containers was impossible.

Ended up ditching my large server case (still have it - anyone need a large 12 drive 3U case with a big threadripper and bunch of ram - hit me up) and switched to a NUC running ubuntu with portainer managing my dockers on it and all my data stored on a Synology NAS.

VMware on one, runs Ubuntu (and then docker) and various appliances. Xpenology on the other. Xpenology also runs Docker for more OOTB containerized apps.

Arch Linux for my primary server. Raspbian for my SBCs.

Proxmox cluster for containers,alerts.etc

Openmediavault for my NAS

ESXi 8 with ISCSI shared storage. Love it.

Used Unraid for many years and moved to TrueNAS Scale, mainly due to lack of raid performance and bitrot.

Really happy with TrueNAS Scale and specially K8s.

I use Fedora.
Why not Promox or unraid or any of those? Because I didn't see a personal benefit to it over Linux+libvirt+qemu (I'm sure there is a benefit, I just don't care enough to find out) Why not Arch/Debian/Ubuntu/etc? Because I partially use it as a way to learn or practice things from work and I want to stick as close to RHEL as possible.

Anything that can run docker works for me.

Currently running 1 server. Ubuntu, with docker because I'm not doing a ton, but I don't want to have to take down my pi-hole if I need to reboot jellyfin. etc.

I was an ESXi fan for over a decade until I found proxmox.

Now I use a combination of VMs and Linux containers.

I use containers for:

Pihole, Ubiquity WiFi Controller, Plex, Audio Bookshelf, imfluxdb, etc. And VMs for Home Assistant and Untangled.

https://ramblingnonsense.substack.com/p/a-journey-from-esxi-to-proxmox-in

RHEL 9 for all my servers home and abroad. I have a few vms that run with kvm and I use docker for everything else that I can

Clean Debian + Docker w/ portainer, without installing anything extra on it. SOLID.

• Device support is great for older enterprise stuff

• Stable as it goes.

• Easy to find solution for problems you may come across due high userbase.

If you’re looking for a NAS and don’t want to invest on all disks right now, unraid. Otherwise truenas

NixOS

I use TrueNAS, mainly because I wanted a solid storage solution. I don't really need many VMs, so I'm happy to run jails for stuff I need.

I also run a small RPi4 server with a few docker containers (a secondary Syncthing server, TVHeadend server, etc).

If I had a need for VMs, I'd run Proxmox (as I have some experience with it).

Denian stable, openSUSE Leap

I use a mix of truenas, debian, and proxmox