16 engineers on Hacker News describe using Proxmox VE first-hand: 6 endorse it, 1 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“So far the Proxmox experience has been pretty flawless. We run a several hundred k8s VMs orchestrated by Rancher”
endorse · production · stroebs · 2026-09-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's been one of our best moves. We run Proxmox hyper-converged now, love the built-in VM firewalls”
endorse · production · 2 yr · jusims · 2025-10-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Proxmox is much nicer for virtual machines and LXC”
endorse · personal · pimeys · 2024-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I decided to run proxmox on my homelab rather than having a k8s setup, and I've come to sort of regret it.”
mixed · personal · WaxProlix · 2024-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I threw proxmox on a desktop pc I pulled from the trash about a year ago. Since then I've been steadily adding new containers”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · rolenthedeep · 2022-11-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Not only that, but stable updates isn't reserved for those with a license.”
regret · personal · NorwegianDude · 2020-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use it at work since Proxmox 3. The only thing I miss is a truly compatible Terraform module”
endorse · production · mister_hn · 2019-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Proxmox is pretty nice, except it has two glaring issues ... I ran Proxmox in production for a year for a small ecom company, but if I had to do it again, I'd go vSphere.”
mixed · production · 1 yr · apple4ever · 2019-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We've recently switched to a more powerful server (refurbished 48 AMD cores / 256 GB RAM) running Proxmox and despite some issues... I am very happy with it.”
endorse · production · snadal · 2016-11-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Proxmox for our non-compute infrastructure (LDAP, SMTP, SSH jump boxes)”
neutral · production · throw0101d · 2025-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run proxmox on a bunch of hardware servers, but for "homelab" we use Ubuntu on ZFS + Incus cluster.”
neutral · production · k_bx · 2025-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated off whatever hypervisor we were using onto wok/kimchi and finally to proxmox, so my scripts still work”
neutral · production · genewitch · 2024-08-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run the nodes as VMs in Proxmox, so the disk and network setup are outside of Talos scope”
neutral · production · splix · 2024-07-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I'm asking for Proxmox; been using Alpine containers because they are so small”
neutral · personal · NelsonMinar · 2023-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated to LXD from Proxmox for stateful containers for various servers (DNS, Zulip, Mastodon)”
neutral · production · veidr · 2023-07-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Proxmox for non-production-critical VMs.”
neutral · production · RamRodification · 2021-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?