19 Dec
2017
19 Dec
'17
5 p.m.
On 19/12/17 16:03, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
For many years I've been running a 2nd-hand "desktop" machine as a home server, which runs print, file & email services and a few others. It's an least 10 Y/O Pentium (5?) with 3GB RAM and is usually not taxed by these services.
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FWIW, I use a Pi2 running Ubuntu 14.04 for OpenVPN and SSH portal, DHCP/Caching DNS (using dnsmasq - it's brilliant) and a few other small services, and a QNAP NAS for SMB file sharing with 2Tb RAID1 in it running a few services as well, such as a media server and Dokuwiki (it can do lots more).
The whole setup is trouble-free, uses little power and is hardly stressed, ever. It supports a mixed environment of client devices quite happily.
Cheers, Laurie.
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Laurie Brown
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