Category: FreeNAS
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End of Nextcloud
As commented yesterday, I have been undergoing another shift in my home server and the capabilities, to try to improve the overall performance and reliability. As part of this, I ended up trying to rebuild the Nextcloud personal cloud server, so that it would be more efficient. Previously, it was sharing a 300 GB VM…
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Webserver troubles
It may have been noticed, but my website was offline for most of the night yesterday. I have been reconfiguring my home theatre system, which runs partially on the same system. In my solution, I have a FreeNAS server, which holds a pair of Ubuntu virtual machines, each of which run pieces of the overall…
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FreeNAS 11 upgrade
As previously posted, I run much of my home network (and this website) on a FreeNAS server, currently running version 9 after a recent downgrade from the failed version 10 release. Recently, FreeNAS 11 was released as a stable version, so I have been eager to upgrade to the new functionality – but hesitant due…
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FreeNAS configuration – the starting point
This listing will end up rather technical, but it is mainly for my own use, to catalog my current FreeNAS configuration and hardware specs. If you find it useful to model after, so much the better. As for general performance, I have been very happy with FreeNAS. As a comparison, we as a family routinely…
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FreeNAS 10 is dead, long live FreeNAS 11
So, after quite a bit of development and experimentation, I found out that apparently the Corral release of FreeNAS (FreeNAS 10.x) has been abandoned as unsupportable by the company that releases it. Fundamentally, I don’t fault them for their decision – if there are too many problems it doesn’t make sense to keep it going.…