--- title: I rebuilt my home servers from scratch, and this is the... description: A home lab enthusiast shares their experience rebuilding their home server setup from scratch, concluding that Proxmox should have been their starting point... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-rebuilt-my-home-servers-from-scratch-and-this-is-the-os-setup-i-wish-i-d-started-with-sm4o4gxgw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I rebuilt my home servers from scratch, and this is the OS setup I wish I'd started with | daily.dev og:description: A home lab enthusiast shares their experience rebuilding their home server setup from scratch, concluding that Proxmox should have been their starting point... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-rebuilt-my-home-servers-from-scratch-and-this-is-the-os-setup-i-wish-i-d-started-with-sm4o4gxgw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SM4o4GxGW.png og:image:alt: I rebuilt my home servers from scratch, and this is the OS setup I wish I'd started with og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I rebuilt my home servers from scratch, and this is the OS setup I wish I'd started with **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A home lab enthusiast shares their experience rebuilding their home server setup from scratch, concluding that Proxmox should have been their starting point from day one. The post covers why Proxmox outperforms a plain Ubuntu Server setup for home labs, highlighting its web UI management, flexibility to run multiple workloads (NAS, smart home, media streaming) in isolated VMs or containers, and cost efficiency at roughly $37/month for a full home lab. TrueNAS is used alongside Proxmox for storage. The author acknowledges Proxmox has a learning curve around hardware passthrough, clustering, and storage pools, but argues it provides a far better foundation than single-purpose OS installs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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