Zon
Cadet
- Joined
- Aug 2, 2014
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I have a relatively recent install of FreeNAS-9.2.1.6-RELEASE-x64 running on a 16GB AMD A8-6600K system and a lot of storage. I got excited about running all my storage related services on this system, so have it set up with:
I'm familiar with command line to install / update software under FreeBSD. If I want to be as up to date as possible, would I be better off just running all these plugins as standard FreeBSD jails and doing all the software updates / maintenance myself?
Alternatively, is it too much to expect a single install of FreeNAS to host all these applications? If I can afford it, should I consider a separate physical application hosting machine and let FreeNAS focus purely on the storage management piece?
I know there's a variety of different approaches that can work, including just waiting for an updated FreeeNAS Plex plugin. I'm interested here in what other more experienced users might consider "best practices" for the future to keep maintenance headaches to a minimum.
- Plugin: Crashplan
- Plugin: Plex
- Plugin: Transmission
- Jail: standard FreeBSD running a web server with Pydio
- Jail: VirtualBox running a single VM of Debian with SqueezeBox. I use VirtualBox for this reason.
I'm familiar with command line to install / update software under FreeBSD. If I want to be as up to date as possible, would I be better off just running all these plugins as standard FreeBSD jails and doing all the software updates / maintenance myself?
Alternatively, is it too much to expect a single install of FreeNAS to host all these applications? If I can afford it, should I consider a separate physical application hosting machine and let FreeNAS focus purely on the storage management piece?
I know there's a variety of different approaches that can work, including just waiting for an updated FreeeNAS Plex plugin. I'm interested here in what other more experienced users might consider "best practices" for the future to keep maintenance headaches to a minimum.