I run opnsense in proxmox, and have done for what must be coming up to 5 years.
Yes I have fucked up proxmox occasionally, but I use my ‘router’ as my wifi AP. If I have fucked up I can bring internet back up with a single cable swap and a quick config change on the router
I wouldn’t worry about ‘website traffic’ if you are using federated services: there is a shit ton of chatter back and forth between servers.
You could put the UI behind a simple password page but you will have to leave all the API urls open.
It takes time and effort to keep ALL the services update (as well as the host OS). So much so that I have actually taken down my wordpress blog
You can use a single domain and subdomains for each service. Once you start to host multi-services you will need more and more compute power and storage.
BlueEther@BlueEthers-MacBook-Air ~ % uptime
17:18 up 47 days, 6:26, 2 users, load averages: 2.19 2.61 2.56
blueaether@lemmy:~$ uptime
04:25:37 up 204 days, 19:45, 1 user, load average: 0.09, 0.15, 0.16
The TV/server has been up for 38 days, I think it got turned off by mistake last month
I suspect that much of lemmy runs on this rule “Lastly, Don’t be a dick”, I know that my instance and the other *.nz do.
@[email protected] Don’t be a dick, and you should be fine - if you want to be <edgy> then (as @[email protected] said) go kick rocks