Mini PC vs Custom Build: Picking Your Proxmox Homelab Hardware Platform
Ask “what should I run Proxmox on” in any homelab community and you’ll get two camps talking past each other, one pushing a mini PC (an Intel NUC-style box, a Beelink, a Minisforum), the other pushing a custom build in a real case with expansion slots. Both are right, for different homelabs. The question isn’t which is objectively better, it’s which set of tradeoffs actually matches what you’re going to do with the box. ...