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Is it a bad buy?

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Some weeks ago, I wrote about my first experiences with Proxmox, which I had been playing with to make use of an old, small-size desktop PC. I also considered virtualizing my home router. A few weeks later, a small “firewall appliance” (just a mini PC with an Intel N150 CPU and four 2.5 GbE ports) from the brand Topton arrived, along with a used 16 GB DDR5 memory stick and a 1 TB NVMe, both of which I had ordered separately. This was the setup intended to run my virtualized router.

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Trying Proxmox VE 9 and should I virtualize my router?

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I’d heard about Proxmox a few times in online forums and videos about “home labs.” I always wondered why people went through the trouble of a complex VM setup instead of just using Docker containers. While I still don’t fully understand the need for VMs everywhere, my curiosity got the better of me, and I decided to give it a try.

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