Hey folks. My understanding of the self-hosting world is that Proxmox is kinda the king of the roost, and deservedly so. I use it myself both for personal and work projects, and love what it provides. I've also used TrueNAS Core/SCALE, and of course just traditional Linux desktop or server distros of various sorts for projects, but out of the corner of my eye has always been sitting XCP-NG. It seems like it could be a real contender in the space.

I've tried installed it a handful of times, and each time it felt like something with a lot of potential, but the freemium model just felt too onerous to make it worth investing too much into learning it. My initial observations were:

• (Plus) It may just be my imagination but in my limited interaction with VMs, they felt a little snappier in terms of interactivity compared to Proxmox/KVM. The console clipboard is a bit weird if you're used to NoVNC but I assume I could adapt to it.
• (Plus) The console for the dom0 and guest VMs is completely persistent, which is awesome. The xsconsole manager program is also a really great management TUI as well, looks great and nice alternative to needing to do things in the GUI or command line. The dom0 console is password protected by default, which I see now in Proxmox 9.x also does. Good security practice, at least there.
• (Plus) I like the incremental backup system. It's very efficient and I'm not aware of any equivalent in other systems.
• (Minus) It seems difficult (maybe not impossible?) to manage some things e.g. VM disk allocations, etc from the main XCP web instance only. They really seem to want you using Xen Orchestra.
• (Huge Minus) The licensing seems extremely expensive compared to Proxmox, to the point where it seems out of reach as a homelab solution. I also really don't like that they don't push updates to the Community edition XO. I know there are some scripts on github to work around this, but it just seems like such a bad look for them to not send security updates to the community edition, even if it's at a slower rate than for the paid customers, which I believe is how Proxmox works.

Does anyone use xcp in homelab environment, or only in enterprise given the cost issues? What do you like about it compared to proxmox or other multi-VM hosting solutions?

Beans is our only adorable dumbo ear of the four boys, but out of the blue he started attacking his brothers, especially his almost twin (sans ears) Frank. When there's blood, we separate of course.

Interestingly, after introducing the new bedding they have calmed down, or maybe it was just a temporary issue. Glad to have our boys all back on one cage!

Short version: Everyone who had basically any assets on Ethereum at the time of PulseChain fork (~may 2023) got a PRC20 copy of all their ERC20 tokens on PulseChain. However, because they are not backed by their Ethereum-equivalent assets, they are not worth nearly as much, but many DO have significant value!

Some early question to decide if you even care at all:

• Specific coin holders, including WBTC (currently trading for about $150), and HEX (still only about .015, but more valuable than it is on Ethereum currently!) should probably consider getting set up on PulseChain, or if you are absolutely set on bailing, swapping for an ETH-stablecoin-equivalent (e.g. 'USDC from Ethereum') and bridging them back to the ETH chain.
• If you mainly hold stablecoins (USDT,USDC,DAI) you do not need to waste your time, since PRC20s are not backed by their equivalent assets on Ethereum.
• ETH is also a special case - because it was turned into an airdrop of sorts for sacrifiers for the original PLS launch several years ago, that asset turned into equivalent PLS, meaning it is effecitvely worthless. So if you have only ETH, you also do not benefit from this at present.
• Other coins have various values on PulseX DEX .

If your asset is currently not worth much, you benefit from just keeping this information in the back of your head, as in a year or five it may become more valuable.

Anyway, if you want help claiming those assets, even if you just want to sell them and get the heck out of dodge, I am happy to advise in the comments of this post (and not in DMs, see below for why that is)

You will have to buy a miniscule amount of PLS in order to move your assets (earlier today a swap on PusleX was about 5000 PLS ($0.50), and if you decide to bridge back to Ethereum, then you will have a tiny amount of PLS to start the bridge, and then a standard (for Etherem anywya - probably between $3 and $20) on the Ethereum side to bridge the assets to Ethereum. You can probably see why PLS was created, since fees generally are a fraction of on ETH.

Folks including myself have offered this sort of help before on reddit, but this is inevitably seized on by DM scammers. You are welcome to view my reddit posting history before deciding whether to trust me. You should of course always follow standard procedures for keeping your crypto safe: never share your seed phrase or backup key with anyone, no matter who they claim to be, or what company they are affiliated with.

Thanks for reading this, and if you have questions, please just ask in the comments.

Keep DCAing friends.

I wonder what the angle is here - Are there folks who know about something as complicated as WBTC on Ethereum who haven't already formed an opinion about Pulse/HEX?

Hmm

This is probably precipitated by speculation on WETH (the PRC20) which is effecitvely the same as PLS.

Just sticking a welcome post in since I see a forum for my favorite pet type.

Have owned 6 of these wonderful little critters, currently in discussions with a breeder in Metro West Boston to bring some new boys home soon.

Have a wonderful day!