{"slug": "what-is-your-base-system-in-your-home-server", "title": "What is your base system in your home server?", "summary": "A user describes using Umbrel as the base system for their home server, noting its ease of use via GUI but acknowledging security and customization limitations. They host services including a Monero node, Snowflake proxy, and Ente Photos, and may consider switching to Proxmox for better security.", "body_md": "I use [umbrel](https://umbrel.com/). It’s probably not the most secure or private and it’s kind of stupid to use because most everything I host is in Portainer.\n\nBut it’s nice to use because it handles all the network side and it’s all GUI. I would recommend it because it will give you a confidence boost, but you’ll quickly realize it’s not usable with many of the regular installable apps because you can’t customize them enough.\n\nPortainer is like a GUI docker app afaik and I use AI to help customize the docker compose files. I do host a few things that are installable from the Umbrel appstore.\n\nSome of my favourite things that I host are an onion service Monero node, a snowflake proxy, and Ente Photos.\n\nI might switch to proxmox at some point because I imagine it has better security, but it would probably be a lot of learning when I already have a functioning setup.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-is-your-base-system-in-your-home-server", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/what-is-your-base-system-in-your-home-server/38649#post_3", "published_at": "2026-06-21 06:51:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-21 07:11:05.680754+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Umbrel", "Portainer", "Monero", "Snowflake", "Ente Photos", "Proxmox"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-is-your-base-system-in-your-home-server", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-is-your-base-system-in-your-home-server.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-is-your-base-system-in-your-home-server.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/what-is-your-base-system-in-your-home-server.jsonld"}}