I purchased server-grade hardware and built a decent machine with the idea of running my own home cloud, along with other utilities like home entertainment. I've been playing with FreeNAS for a couple of years now and while I have a lot to learn about it, here's my dilemma. If you want to chide me that's fine, but please provide some practical and production-grade advice as well.
I've configured a couple of jails and installed a few plug-ins. While jails are customizable and much more powerful than plug-ins, apparently updating FreeNAS messes up the jail configuration because the updated templates overwrite the old templates. At least that's been my experience after updating FreeNAS more than once. I had a nicely configured ownCloud jail with nginx and mysql (thanks to joshruehlig and others). My ownClould configuration got totally whacked up and the files were inaccessible.
The plug-ins on the other hand, are usually a few major releases behind. If it wasn't for security updates and features, I wouldn't care to update.
So here's my philosophical and practical question: Considering all the handy plug-ins and uses that FreeNAS offers, is the product really ready for production-grade? Or is FreeNAS a beefed up beta product? Is there a best-practice guide for maintaining the server without breaking the jails and the affiliated utilities, with each upgrade?
Appreciate constructive suggestions.
Murray
I've configured a couple of jails and installed a few plug-ins. While jails are customizable and much more powerful than plug-ins, apparently updating FreeNAS messes up the jail configuration because the updated templates overwrite the old templates. At least that's been my experience after updating FreeNAS more than once. I had a nicely configured ownCloud jail with nginx and mysql (thanks to joshruehlig and others). My ownClould configuration got totally whacked up and the files were inaccessible.
The plug-ins on the other hand, are usually a few major releases behind. If it wasn't for security updates and features, I wouldn't care to update.
So here's my philosophical and practical question: Considering all the handy plug-ins and uses that FreeNAS offers, is the product really ready for production-grade? Or is FreeNAS a beefed up beta product? Is there a best-practice guide for maintaining the server without breaking the jails and the affiliated utilities, with each upgrade?
Appreciate constructive suggestions.
Murray