-=> Kostie Muirhead wrote to Nigel Reed <=-

 KM> That said, while a server is overkill for a bbs at this point, if you
 KM> run something like proxmox and virtualize everything, then a single
 KM> lightweight lxc container does fairly well for bbs duty and you can
 KM> setup plex and other niceties in other containers.

My mini home lab is a Thinkpad with a broken keyboard. It's got an i7 CPU 
and 16 GB of RAM; I put a 750 GB SATA drive in it. On top of it is a Netgear 
Nighthawk router with a 2TB SATA drive connected, and it's sharing to the 
Proxmox server via CIFS. It's running DD-WRT and Entware, is hosting my 
media files for my Smart TVs and it's going to be a reverse proxy for my 
network when I get it configured. The router was a Goodwill find for $10.

That whole kit probably cost $100, is silent, and has a built-in UPS. I'm 
running Proxmox with a couple of test environments on it, a Lubuntu VM for 
torrenting, DOS/Windows 3.1 for retro goodness, and pi-hole.

I was worried about ESXi's hardware compatibility, Proxmox loaded up in 10 
minutes and supported everything without complaint.

I could easily move the BBS over to it, and probably will do so when the 
bare-metal hardware running the BBS fails. I'll probably add a USB ethernet 
adapter I have laying around and play with VLANs on my firewall to separate 
the BBS from the rest of the network, as an exercise.





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