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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Luckeysthebest on 2025-07-14 10:36:29+00:00.

I have a question for the self hosting community. I see a lot of people use proxmox for virtualising a lot of their servers when self hosting. I did try that at the beginning of my self hosting journey but quickly changed because resource management was hell.

Here is my question : why virtualise when you can containerise most of your of your services ? What is the point ? Is there a secret that I don’t understand ?