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Short and clear: which type of Nextcloud installation should I choose - LXC, VM or Docker?

Nextcloud is a popular solution for creating your own cloud data storage. In this article, we will look at various ways to install Nextcloud, their pros and cons. To begin with, there are several ways to install Nextcloud: directly on the server, in a virtual machine, in Docker manually or in Docker via the automatic AIO stack. You can also install Nextcloud in an LXC container. Nextcloud is a popular solution for creating your own cloud data storage. In this article, we will look at various ...
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Short and sweet: how to choose a RAID/HBA controller for the server

RAID controllers have not left and are not going to, on the contrary, hardware controllers for NVME and PCI Express drives (including M2 format drives) are entering the market. The abundance of drives and software features of RAID/HBA make you approach this choice as responsibly as possible, otherwise you may lose data. RAID controllers have not left and are not going to, on the contrary, hardware controllers for NVME and PCI Express drives (including M2 format drives) are entering the ...
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What can Synology be replaced with in the conditions of sanctions. Part 2: Choosing a software

... under Debian. Yes, unlike Synology, where everything was done for ... folder is equal to the sum of all disks included in ... really the difference? Proxmox, unlike Synology DSM, supports LXC container virtualization ... software. The closest thing to Synology HyperBackup is the  Duplicati  program ... here: everyone wants money for VMware backups, and only  Vincin Backup ... ultimate solution that could replace Synology Notes.  Standard Notes  is ... one method - using a hardware RAID controller where the disk load ...
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What can Synology be replaced with in the conditions of sanctions. Part 1: Choosing a stable platform.

... the cloud. Synology even has  2-controller NAS  and  iSCSI SAN  solutions ... the operating system logical disks (RAID arrays) and disks themselves ( ... configure any storage configurations: RAID on XFS for quick access ... RAID again. In general, all those rakes that the programmers of Synology ... installed in the server (unlike VMware ESXi). In the Proxmox VE ... and container images. Basically, read operations will be performed here ... hardware, especially since modern RAID controllers give flexibility in choosing ...
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Exclusive interview with Synology GmbH CEO Jeffrey Huang

Will Vendor Lock be implemented, how did the company survive the mining fever, how does it look at Web3 and decentralization, ZFS and RAID 2.0+, will DSM be sold separately? We are talking about this and other topics with the CEO of Synology. - I would like to start the conversation with a question about the home user market. When Synology was just starting out, the NAS was a mystery to the average person, and most PC and laptop owners did not understand what it was for. Now, after so many ...
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Impregnable NAS: hardening and protecting Synology

A modern NAS is quite capable of protecting itself from most attacks and guaranteeing not only the continuity of the service, but also the inviolability of the stored data. Even with minimal settings and following the manufacturer's recommendations, the NAS can become an impregnable fortress for an attacker, so reliable that you can connect the device directly to the Internet without a Firewall, leave it literally in an unguarded place (which is important for peripheral installations), being ...
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Synology RS4021xs+review. An inexpensive NAS that has everything!

We have a typical business NAS of the Mainstream class: with two 10-Gigabit network ports, a fault-tolerant power supply unit and an 8-core Intel Xeon D-1541 processor. This is a solution for most large and small organizations, which can be assigned to file sharing on the network, backup and operation of various services. In the Synology corporate storage line, the RS40xx series is the main workhorse, on the basis of which you can solve most tasks in small and medium-sized businesses. This ...
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Lenovo ThinkAgile VX3320 review - a hyperconverged solution for simplified enterprise-wide vSAN deployment

Hyperconverged systems are rapidly gaining popularity and are already becoming the standard for building virtualization platforms in the corporate environment. Lenovo has released a special series of servers for installing and running VMware vSAN with tools for simplified administration and deployment at the customer's facility. The ideology of hyperconvergent solutions using VMware technologies has its advantages: this is a relatively low cost at the start, and the ability to scale almost ...
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What's new in Synology DSM 7? We analyze 7 improvements for a business customer

... -am. Synology products have always been opposed to cheap SAN devices, ... rather unusual dual-controller  IP-SAN device UC3200 , and now it ... FC network card and the SAN Manager package. Thanks to ... also planned for UC3200 IP-SAN devices. There is no ... to iSCSI. By implementing SAN on the BTRFS file system ... of a virtual machine from VMWare ESXi directly to the NAS ... in the SSD read/write cache fails, Synology DSM automatically resets ... of the performance of RAID arrays in Synology. But to maintain readiness ...
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Synology FlashStation FS6400 review - testing speed and getting to know Synology branded SSDs

... Read our article " Studying SSD and RAM caching in Synology servers ... high response stability in random read and write tasks, and are ... Suite As for the basic, root capabilities of the NAS, here ... 3 x Synology SAT 5200, 480Gb, RAID5 BTRFS OS: VMware ESXi 6 ... show the reference stability of read access, but with a long ... to remind that we have RAID 5 out of only three ... of corporate SAN and NAS class storage systems. You can read about ... them in our storage reviews Synology and Huawei ...