Proxmox Self-Hosted Starter Kit v1
Updated Aug 12, 2026: expanded with the “why not just use free scripts” answer, benefit-led breakdown, and a real guarantee. The part nobody tells you about self-hosting: you’ll do this setup more than once The first time you stand up Vaultwarden, Uptime Kuma, and Paperless-ngx, it’s a fun Saturday project. You click through Community Scripts, pick your settings, watch the containers come up, and you’re proud of your homelab. Then, six months later, a drive fails. Or you’re rebuilding on a new node. Or you fat-fingered a container and it’s easier to nuke it than fix it. Now you’re doing the exact same setup again, except this time you’re trying to remember what resource sizing you picked, which bridge you used, whether you hardened it the same way as last time, and you’re doing it from memory instead of documentation, because who writes documentation for their own homelab. ...