A container runtime operating inside an LXC may sound weird, but it's pretty effective for low-power PVE nodes ...

Setting up a self-hosted VPN on Proxmox can mitigate security risks from unsecured external networks. Use Pi-hole for network-wide ad-blocking and custom blocklists on your Proxmox machine.

I now have Proxmox 5.4 up and running, hosting several VMs and the drive/filesystem performance significantly exceeds my expectations, by an order of magnitude, with the default settings (as long ...