The beginner’s guide to self-hosting: Installing Proxmox and hardware choices
If you’re thinking of getting into self-hosting, Tailscale is a great networking solution that further boosts your privacy and security. Think of the last time you took a photo with your phone. What happens to that photo when it gets sent to Google or iCloud? In many instances, cloud storage companies can scan that image and add it to their databases, while you don't have much say over your privacy.
Alternatively, self-hosting allows you to keep your things on hardware you own and manage. This can include personal information, photos, data, and more. Tailscale can then securely connect to your self-hosted storage. In this tutorial, we’ll start by picking out hardware and installing Proxmox.
Selecting a computing device
In the past, people commonly used a device called a Raspberry Pi for self-hosting. It’s a single-board computer with a CPU, RAM, network ports, and USB. However, some Raspberry Pi models can...
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