[H-GEN] readynas as a mail/web/squid server?

Troy Piggins troy at piggo.com
Wed Jun 1 02:27:50 EDT 2011


* Paul Gear wrote :
> On 01/06/11 15:31, Troy Piggins wrote:
> > ...
> > Does anyone have experience using Netgear's ReadyNAS as a server?
> > Just looking at options for home network server that normally runs
> > iptables, postfix, dovecot, ssh, apache, squid, backuppc, samba type
> > stuff.  I see it's a Linux OS, and you can install APT onto it to
> > install Debian/Ubuntu packages etc.  Thinking it would be a cheap
> > option to get a RAID server going.
> 
> I don't know about the ReadyNAS, but i have a QNAP TS-219p 2-drive
> system that i wiped the factory firmware off and installed Debian.  It's
> a pretty sweet little box, if a bit under-powered in terms of CPU...

Thanks mate.  Hoping the CPU (and only 256MB RAM) is sufficient for
my humble needs above.

-- 
Troy Piggins



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