These N95 Mini PCs Make Great Home Servers

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As of Proxmox Virtual Environment 8, the Linux kernel has native support for Alder Lake N series including graphics.

What is PVE you might ask? It's a Linux-based hypervisor that let's you run virtual machines and Linux containers (LXC). These N95/100 based systems are quite powerful for their power draw, so you can deploy lots of services for your home network without worrying too much about the electricity bill.

I have two AD03s that runs my security cams, blog website, Wireguard VPN, DDNS, Pihole DNS, Torrent, and many other containerized services.

The new S1 looks very interesting, too. With the screen to monitor the internals directly, I am sure there's a way to monitor some basic metrics from Proxmox, too. This might make it a better machine for running headless server than the others.