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All Posts · October 2026
3 posts
What the Proxmox command line does that the web UI hides
pct and qm do everything the Proxmox web UI does, plus the things it never shows you. Batch operations, hidden config keys, and guests defined in git.
Oct 8, 2026·Homelab recovery·5 min
My monitoring stack costs nothing a month and tells me more than the paid tier did
Every host, container, VM, array and backup watched for nothing a month. What is in the stack, why it beats the free tiers, and the costs that are not money.
Oct 5, 2026·Homelab recovery·7 min
Proxmox still flags btrfs as a technology preview, and I guessed wrong about why
Proxmox still labels btrfs a technology preview. I assumed that was stale conservatism, went looking, and found I had confidently answered the wrong question.
Oct 1, 2026·Homelab recovery·5 min