Everyday Tech · Oct 10, 2026
VMware abandoned my old homelab server, so Proxmox VE got it instead
How a dead motherboard and growing frustration with ESXi finally won me over to Proxmox
When my Intel S1200 server motherboard gave out, I figured a cheap replacement would get my humble ESXi server up and running again. An old Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H I purchased second-hand gave my old Xeon CPU another home, and I couldn't justify upgrading hardware to keep a homelab hypervisor running.