So, could you add additional old hardware to this “pool” to use as needed?
Pretty much. You just take any old scraps of hardware, throw proxmox on it, and it does the rest. Then you just follow the menu and click through to say how many cores you want, how much RAM, how much HD storage, and what image like its a Taco Bell menu.
In a few seconds you’ve got a new machine spun up with its own IP, which you can remote into from the original machine, or really, any other machine on the network.
I only got into it seriously a few months ago (I’ve self hosted in the past, but it was a PITA), and I was gobsmacked at how easy it was.
Pretty much. You just take any old scraps of hardware, throw proxmox on it, and it does the rest. Then you just follow the menu and click through to say how many cores you want, how much RAM, how much HD storage, and what image like its a Taco Bell menu.
In a few seconds you’ve got a new machine spun up with its own IP, which you can remote into from the original machine, or really, any other machine on the network.
I only got into it seriously a few months ago (I’ve self hosted in the past, but it was a PITA), and I was gobsmacked at how easy it was.
Check out this guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zngSuqCM4d8
You could literally be up and running in 15 minutes.
Whoa, this sounds like a really cool project. I think I would enjoy doing this. Thank you for telling me about it.