MichaelCropper
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Hi all, newbie to FreeNAS here. After doing an awful lot of research, I've a few questions before I jump in and get a bunch of hardware to power FreeNAS to attempt to configure what I'm aiming to achieve.
What I'm looking for is essentially a mini-data centre type infrastructure for personal use. I.e. A single tower PC (a beast of a PC with RAID, lots of RAM & HDD space, with FreeNAS running). Ultimately with this hardware, the primary requirements are mainly software based though.
I'm looking for a setup that is capable of running every point below securely inside individual Jails for each point;
1) Running OpenVPS
2) Running OwnCloud (which I believe is available as a FreeNAS plugin)
3) Pointing www.website-1.com to an Apache installation (with full flexibility of what software is installed on this instance)
4) Pointing www.website-2.com....as above, same flexibility.
So the question being, is this possible, and if so, how?
I'm also going to be running this on a home network initially which is fine for local access, but adds extra complexity with domain > IP mapping with multiple websites. I.e if I port forward 80 for HTTP and 443 for HTTPS towards the PC running FreeNAS within the main router, how would that work in practice at the FreeNAS level to determine which Jail to direct the traffic to, OpenVPN, OwnCloud, www.website-1.com, www.website-2.com etc.?
I've figured out the Dynamic IP address type technology which should be able to be overcome with something like No-ip.com which I have been experimenting with and seems to work well for a few other projects I've been working on.
And one final thought, how would all of this fit in with something like VMWare? Is this something that could fit on top of FreeNAS, or separate, or something different? I've not researched VMWare in a great deal of detail at the moment, so I can't really talk with a lot of confidence about this for now, although from what I do know, this seems to somehow fit within this kind of setup, somewhere.
For reference, I'm a technical guy, but more focused on the web technology side, not on the networking/hardware side so I'm still getting to grips with the the underlying hardware / infrastructure design aspects and how this all works in practice. Keen to learn a lot more about this and best practice etc.
What I'm looking for is essentially a mini-data centre type infrastructure for personal use. I.e. A single tower PC (a beast of a PC with RAID, lots of RAM & HDD space, with FreeNAS running). Ultimately with this hardware, the primary requirements are mainly software based though.
I'm looking for a setup that is capable of running every point below securely inside individual Jails for each point;
1) Running OpenVPS
2) Running OwnCloud (which I believe is available as a FreeNAS plugin)
3) Pointing www.website-1.com to an Apache installation (with full flexibility of what software is installed on this instance)
4) Pointing www.website-2.com....as above, same flexibility.
So the question being, is this possible, and if so, how?
I'm also going to be running this on a home network initially which is fine for local access, but adds extra complexity with domain > IP mapping with multiple websites. I.e if I port forward 80 for HTTP and 443 for HTTPS towards the PC running FreeNAS within the main router, how would that work in practice at the FreeNAS level to determine which Jail to direct the traffic to, OpenVPN, OwnCloud, www.website-1.com, www.website-2.com etc.?
I've figured out the Dynamic IP address type technology which should be able to be overcome with something like No-ip.com which I have been experimenting with and seems to work well for a few other projects I've been working on.
And one final thought, how would all of this fit in with something like VMWare? Is this something that could fit on top of FreeNAS, or separate, or something different? I've not researched VMWare in a great deal of detail at the moment, so I can't really talk with a lot of confidence about this for now, although from what I do know, this seems to somehow fit within this kind of setup, somewhere.
For reference, I'm a technical guy, but more focused on the web technology side, not on the networking/hardware side so I'm still getting to grips with the the underlying hardware / infrastructure design aspects and how this all works in practice. Keen to learn a lot more about this and best practice etc.
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