What would you use for a very simple file and web server? I have looked at freenas, and it seems to fit the bill quite well, but no web server. Looked at Clear, which seemed unduly complicated and comes with apache, which is probably beyond me. Looked at voyage which promptly froze amid complaints about respawnings as soon as it was started up. Where I'm ending up is to do a basic debian install, then add nfs and one of the very simple stripped down web servers. Sensible? Its strictly for internal use, and all I need is central file storage, and very limited internal web sites, mainly photo galleries. Minimal traffic. By the way, the answer to the previous question, apps locked to specific machines, discovered after some work and consultation with a friend who only emerges from his basement after dark, seems to be to virtualize the app. A lot of work, but that's the answer. It all keeps blood flowing to the brain! A powerful preventative against intellectual infirmity, or so we hope. Peter "The best medicine we have for the heart is liberal quantities of sweat, taken externally " -- Eminent Cardiologist.
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 09:35:30AM +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
What would you use for a very simple file and web server? I have looked at freenas, and it seems to fit the bill quite well, but no web server. Looked at Clear, which seemed unduly complicated and comes with apache, which is probably beyond me. Looked at voyage which promptly froze amid complaints about respawnings as soon as it was started up.
Where I'm ending up is to do a basic debian install, then add nfs and one of the very simple stripped down web servers. Sensible? Its strictly for internal use, and all I need is central file storage, and very limited internal web sites, mainly photo galleries. Minimal traffic.
By the way, the answer to the previous question, apps locked to specific machines, discovered after some work and consultation with a friend who only emerges from his basement after dark, seems to be to virtualize the app. A lot of work, but that's the answer.
It all keeps blood flowing to the brain! A powerful preventative against intellectual infirmity, or so we hope.
I use Ubuntu Server, simple and easy to maintain as I use Ubuntu on the desktop machines here as well. -- Chris Green
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris G" <cl@isbd.net> To: <main@lists.alug.org.uk> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 1:54 PM Subject: Re: [ALUG] simple file and web server
On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 09:35:30AM +0000, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
What would you use for a very simple file and web server? I have looked at freenas, and it seems to fit the bill quite well, but no web server. Looked at Clear, which seemed unduly complicated and comes with apache, which is probably beyond me. Looked at voyage which promptly froze amid complaints about respawnings as soon as it was started up.
Where I'm ending up is to do a basic debian install, then add nfs and one of the very simple stripped down web servers. Sensible? Its strictly for internal use, and all I need is central file storage, and very limited internal web sites, mainly photo galleries. Minimal traffic.
By the way, the answer to the previous question, apps locked to specific machines, discovered after some work and consultation with a friend who only emerges from his basement after dark, seems to be to virtualize the app. A lot of work, but that's the answer.
It all keeps blood flowing to the brain! A powerful preventative against intellectual infirmity, or so we hope.
I use Ubuntu Server, simple and easy to maintain as I use Ubuntu on the desktop machines here as well.
+1 for Ubuntu server. Easy to install and plenty of support/tutorials on the web
On Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:35:30 +0000 Peter Alcibiades <palcibiades-first@yahoo.co.uk> allegedly wrote:
What would you use for a very simple file and web server? I have looked at freenas, and it seems to fit the bill quite well, but no web server. Looked at Clear, which seemed unduly complicated and comes with apache, which is probably beyond me. Looked at voyage which promptly froze amid complaints about respawnings as soon as it was started up.
Peter I'd agree that a base debian install will do. I use exactly that on some very small (ARM based) devices. My favourite web server is lighttpd. Very small, very fast and runs well on machines with little memory (as low as 32Meg in the case of my slugs). I don't run NFS so I can't comment there. Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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