I spent an hour hunting down ram on Ebay and managed to get a bulk lot of 16gb sticks, and I didn't have to sell a kidney!

Does anyone take advantage of iDRAC or iLo on their server hardware?

Are Home Labs Dead in 2026? The Comment That Forced Me to Rethink Everything #homelab #homeserver #ramprices https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/01/are-home-labs-dead-in-2026-the-comment-that-forced-me-to-rethink-everything/

I shared some of my thoughts and tools I rely on with this post: Monitor Your Proxmox Home Lab Like a Boss: The Monitoring Stack I Actually Use #proxmox #homelab #homeserver https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2026/01/monitor-your-proxmox-home-lab-like-a-boss-the-monitoring-stack-i-actually-use/

I've been trying to get my head around why Cloud Init would be better than just Cloning my Baseline VM I use to spin up new VM's. Over the past few months I've watched several youtube videos and I can't seem to see any significant advantages, even more so when using static IP's. So I thought I would ask my esteemed forum members...... @Brandon Lee maybe a new video setting out Clone vs Cloud Init would finally settle this?