I moved everything to Proxmox and learned that fewer boxes doesn't mean more reliable

Consolidating a home lab into Proxmox reduces hardware clutter and simplifies management, but it also increases the blast radius of failures since multiple services share one host. The author reflects on how virtualization makes spinning up new services dangerously easy, leading to service sprawl. The key insight is that 'fewer devices' does not automatically mean 'more resilient' — some services like DNS, network edge, and hardware-dependent workloads are better left on dedicated hardware, while lightweight containers and experimental apps are ideal Proxmox candidates. The takeaway is deliberate architecture: know what belongs centralized and what should stay separate.