> I was working on a pretty big proxmox setup back in 2016...
Define "pretty big". Proxmox officially supports up to 32 nodes in a cluster and the Proxmox folks themselves have "seen clusters of around ~24 nodes in production" (as of 2025) and for "bigger clusters than that, fine-tuning might be necessary":
There are folks talking about running things in the high-40s and low-50s, but that's not officially support. If you have beefy hardware you can fit a lot of VMs on a single hypervisor (I've always found running out of RAM is often the limit).
A single vSphere cluster can have up to 96 nodes (without vSAN), and vCentre can handle multiple clusters (2500 total hosts; 40k VMs). Proxmox recently released Cluster Manager, which helps with feature parity.
I'm a happy user of Proxmox for a number of years (and helped ran OpenStack before that), but I think for large(r) scale deployments (and even smaller ones) there's a good reason which VMware was so popular. (How many folks are actually at that (large(r)) scale is a different question.)
(Also: XCP-ng doesn't seem to get much press. Haven't used it myself though.)
For an article about beer it's horribly misinformed.
The most important part first: bewing water
Theres a lot of talk about "gypsum" and "mineral rich" and what it does to the brewing water.
Much of it is not exactly wrong per se, but very imprecise.
The natural water in Burton is rich in calcium and VERY rich in sulfate (SO_4) but low on sodium.
The ratio of sulfate:sodium is responsible for the perception of hops flavour and bitterness.
BUT:
"a lot of the lager brewed here makes greedy use of Burton’s gorgeous natural mineral-rich water"
This is plain bullshit. This kind of water is absolutely unsuitable for lager beer, that's why the local beer style is a pale ale.
The thing is: the by far biggest brewery in town (Molson Coors) demineralizes the brewing water and re-adds a mineral mix for different beer styles.
This is also the brewery that makes tons of mass market lager beer there.
(this is not uncommon in modern breweries, e.g. Flensburger in germany is publicly know to do the same while most german breweries use well water as-is. This is one of the reasons for the differences in beer styles. The german beer market has very little presence of international brands and customers are very sensitive when it comes to brands trying to close actual breweries just putting their badge on beer brewed by another brewery... exactly the type of thing that happened to Brass and other traditional Burton brands)
also:
"Sure, the town is now made up of megacorporate monster-breweries pumping out half of the world’s lager"
This is again very imprecise. There is one "megacorporate monster brewery" in Burton - Molson Coors. That brewery is big but not remarkably so, comparable in size to e.g. the Krombacher Brewery in germany. And there are dozens of breweries of that size in Europe alone.
(source: I'm a hobby brewer and also interested in brewing culture and tech)
There are more accredited inspection providers besides TüV in germany like Dekra etc.
This matters because TüV does NOT have data for all cars and there might be self selection effects because drivers can choose where to do the inspection (many get it done by whatever provider their car dealer has a deal with, which might differ greatly by car brand)
TÜV is the largest such organisation in Germany and almost has a monopoly. The inspections themselves are colloquially even called "TÜV", even if you do it at some other org.
However, as others have written, there is still some huge bias in those numbers. Especially German brand car shops provide an inspection service, where they pre-check and repair the car before the official inspection. Many of those German brands are also very big on company leasing, to the point where almost nobody buys a new BMW, Mercedes or Audi privately, they either get a new one as a company car via company leasing, or they get a used leasing return car. All those leasing cars always have the aforementioned inspection service as part of the leasing package. So those numbers are to be taken with a huge huge grain of salt.
First of all TÜV isn't a single org but a shared brand of multiple independent companies.
And while "TÜV" is used colloquially for the mandatory car inspection in germany even all TÜV named companies together aren't anywhere near a monopoly:
all of them combined(!) have 37,5% market share in the german vehicle inspection market. The largest single org in that market is actually DEKRA with 32,5%.
People say "Ich bring mein Auto zum TÜV", but they actually mean "I'm gonna drop it at my dealership and let him inspect it by whatever company he has a deal with"
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