What kind of hosting service will allow this?
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This was the first hit on proxmox vps.
hostkey.com/vps/proxmox/
I have no idea if they are good or not, but this kind of service might be what you’re looking for?
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@gazter how are you at portforwarding? Or using tailscale?
Maybe you just need to vnc to it with Apache guacamole?
Tailscale + guacamole
https://guacamole.apache.org/
Not sure if guacamole works on windows though.
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The first thing to check is whether you can install your CAD software on a virtual machine with your current license. If you have good internet at home and already own a CAD machine then it might be easier to setup VPN access and remote control that machine for your Windows needs.
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Adding to this: doesn’t CAD usually want 3D acceleration? I would definitely try running the CAD software with the same VM configuration you plan to use in your Proxmox VPS first before progressing to make sure it (a works at all and b) is responsive enough. You could even try nesting Proxmox in Proxmox to emulate the kind of performance you’d had on a VPS.
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A VPS is already a VM and nesting VMs, even if you get it to work, is generally a Bad Idea™️.
What you’re asking for is squarely in “bare metal” territory. Does that reduce your flexibility? Sure. But it doesn’t entirely eliminate it. Down the road if you decide you need more RAM or disk those are things you can have added (at a cost). CPU would likely necessitate a migration to a different system so I’d keep that in mind during initial sizing. Also, if you are using proxmox, migration will be as simple as backing up a container/VM and restoring it at the destination.
Your other alternative is multiple VPSes or possibly augmenting the bare metal server with one or more VPSes.
As far as unified billing goes, just have all the services with the same provider. Most providers I’ve encountered offer both services.
I can’t speak to providers in our around Sydney, but I’d recommend checking out lowendbox.com to start your search.
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Thanks. As bare metal is quite a bit more expensive, what would I lose by going to a VPS? I’m assuming Proxmox and Windows, assuming I wanted to go with a Linux VPS. Would there be issues with running Docker containers with the VPS?
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With a vps expect to lose all virtualization
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It’s already all virtualized, so from customer perspective, advantages of virtualization aren’t there (single box, maximizing use of local resources, etc).
Wouldn’t you be able to do containers in a Linux VPS though? To the host, it’s just a virtualized Linux, from Linux’ perspective, those containers are local resources.
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Docker Desktop for Linux runs a Virtual Machine (VM).
Looks like you’d still need virtualization.
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Docker desktop is not what most people on Linux are using. They’re using docker engine directly, which doesn’t run in a vm, and doesn’t require virtualization if you use the same kernel inside the containers.
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Is Docker considered virtualisation?
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Docker requires hardware virtualization so kinda but not really. Apparently it runs inside of a VM so that’s a no go.
Honestly I think you’re asking way too much for a VPS, or even a full blown server. If you want to run CAD software you’ll also want a remotely capable GPU and you won’t get that in a server unless you’ve explicitly put something in it. The built in GPUs in servers are like radeon 3450s that are 15 years old and are basically just video adapters and not actual “graphics processing units”. If you have your own server I’d throw a GPU in there and try running your software there. But honestly any remotely modern laptop will probably run faster than a cheap rented server.
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No docker is not virtualisation, the poster below is talking about docker for desktop which is a nice gui wrapper around it in a VM, but by definition docke itself does not use any form of virtualisation. If you had a modern Linux server you can install any of the container runtimes, e.g. docker, podman to run containers or something like K3S which is effectively a lightweight kubernetes if you wanted to run a lot of different containers and have a central way of managing them
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I run docker exclusively in VMs and VPS and it works fine.
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Bare metal server sounds like optimal solution for you and set up a hypervisor on top of it, so it’s pretty trivial to migrate VMs to your own hardware when needed. But then for your ‘long term’ environment VPS would most likely be better and migrating a full VM from your hypervisor to VPS is a bit more work, but can be done.
I don’t know about providers in Australia, but Hetzner has both and combined billing and my personal experience with them is pretty good. But I’m in Europe, so bandwidth nor latency is not a problem.
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I would go with Azure especially if you are interested in Windows servers. It will cost you but that’s how I would do it if I wasn’t using physical hardware.
For Windows on physical hardware you just need the proper license.
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I don’t know how easy it would be to migrate to your own local machine, but what you’re describing sounds like Desktop-as-a-Service. All of the major cloud providers offer this in some form.
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If you don’t have a proper computer, how will you access this remote server to do your CAD work?
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You can RDP in with a toaster these days.
Okay, maybe not a toaster. But you can use any old piece of junk you have lying around. Even a phone.
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Have you tried doing CAD work on a phone or iPad over a Remote Desktop connection?
Seems unpleasant enough to drive someone to buy a proper laptop to travel with.
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Haha, yeah I didn’t necessarily mean for CAD work, though I suppose you could get a mouse and keyboard to make it more tolerable.
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RDP is a Windows protocol, hence will not work on a toaster or a phone, only on PCs. You can however RDP into a box from a phone or toaster.
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If I was in your shoes I’d probably build my own hypervisor box and rent colo space for it. Strictly because your requirement to migrate VMs to your own system later is more trouble than it’s worth.
I don’t know for sure but I’d guess you would pay less for colo than renting someone’s server for a year or two. Renting bare metal is stupid expensive.
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Get a VPS, wire guard and forward the socket to your home server.
Bare metal is stupid expensive because it’s near impossible to administer for them, all you need is a static ip really.
Alternately use a dyndns service and poke holes in your home firewall.
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