Validation/Options for Proxmox with PfSense Build Home Webserver Hosting

hevski

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I don't have Proxmox and PfSense experience, but have watched a couple of YouTube videos about setup.

Wonder if I can get any opinions from anyone with more experiance on a small self-hosted web hosting solution I’m imminently looking to setup.

Networking
Modem -> PFsense Box -> Managed Switch configured with Two VLANS (1 VLAN id(101) for Home LAN, 1 VLAN dedicated (id 901)for exposing the Proxmox Box) -> Proxmox Box

VMs On Proxmox

I only require two VM’s on the Proxmox box:
  • Windows Server 2019 – Only hosts 2 sites
  • WHM/cPanel- will host 10 sites and more to come

This is where I get more confused, the PfSense routed web traffic to the Proxmox box is this routed to the virtual NICs (I think there is a concept on Proxmox), does a virtual NIC give you seperate IP address for each VM instance.

  • Is this understanding following roughly correct for PFSense configuration? A possible way to go about the setup, PFSense would be configured so all web traffic port HTTP 80, HTTPS 443 gets routed to the VLAN 901, to the Proxmox box virtual IP address for the WHM/cPanel VM instance.
  • And then setup two specific domain name pattern match PFSense rules for for the 2 sites to route to the Windows Server VM instance virtual NIC.
Would I get two virtual IP addresses from one physical NIC card on the Proxmox box? So one virtual IP for the Windows Server 2019 VM and one virtual IP for the WHM/cPanel VM?

Or would it be a better solution to get a dual-port NIC card and map/bridge the traffic from each NIC.

Sorry not sure about the terminology I'm using is correct here.
 
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