This week’s goal
Understand whether Proxmox would help, without immediately rebuilding everything.
This is a personal growth area. Historically, I have treated “interesting option” as a formal migration plan.
What I actually did
I read through the practical trade-offs:
- plain Linux is simpler
- Proxmox is more flexible
- VMs and containers are useful
- snapshots are tempting
- backups still matter either way
I did not move the live setup. I tested ideas separately and wrote down where Proxmox would actually help.
The main use case is clear: if I want multiple services, test environments, and cleaner rollback points, Proxmox earns its place. If I only want Jellyfin, plain Ubuntu is still perfectly sensible.
What broke, or nearly did
My brain tried to turn a comparison into a rebuild.
I did not let it. I am choosing to call this discipline, not fear.
What I’m keeping
- Proxmox as a likely future option
- No live migration yet
- Notes on what would move into a VM
- Backups before any platform change
SmallGrid takeaway
Virtualisation is useful when it solves a real problem. It is not automatically the next step just because the dashboard looks more serious.