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Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers


After years of self-hosting on a VPS in a datacenter, I’ve decided to move my services at home. But instead of just porting services, I’m using this as an opportunity to migrate to a more flexible and robust set up.

I didn’t let the installer fill my disk with random data because it takes a lot of time and doesn’t match my threat model. After installing Debian and unlocking the disk, I need to configure the ssh server to let me temporarily log in as root to copy my public key. After a few reinstalls and a bit of trial and error, I could figure out that my machine wouldn’t boot after installing Proxmox VE if I didn’t set up a static IP configuration for it.

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