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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

... perhaps Nextcloud is able to replace Synology services to a greater extent ... version is quite capable of replacing Synology Media Server. It is better ... here: everyone wants money for VMware backups, and only  Vincin Backup ... any ultimate solution that could replace Synology Notes.  Standard Notes  is more ... one method - using a hardware RAID controller where the disk load ... company's point of view, replacing Synology will require the involvement of ... drives, mixing ZFS and hardware RAID, and you will never run ...
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What can Synology be replaced with in the conditions of sanctions. Part 1: Choosing a stable platform.

... it extremely difficult to replace Synology? In general, Synology's business was ... 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 ... 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!

... This is usually achieved through read caching algorithms, but in ... in RAID arrays. It is not specified what technologies Synology used ... replace full-fledged backups. File protocols It is assumed that one Synology ... NFS for connecting, for example, VMware or OpenStack storage, AFP for ... operate in two modes: read-only and read/write. In the ... more complex arrays, including RAID 5, the main thing ... after startup. As for read/write caching, the behavior ... and then 2 SSDs in read/write cache mode, combining ...
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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

... the description of innovations that Synology provided to journalists takes up ... of a virtual machine from VMWare ESXi directly to the NAS ... Synology Virtual Machine Manager allows you to migrate virtual machines from VMware ... in the SSD read/write cache fails, Synology DSM automatically resets ... of the performance of RAID arrays in Synology. But to maintain readiness ... a spare one assigned to replace it will automatically take its ... providers (which Gartner quotes above Synology), this service is usually ...
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Synology FlashStation FS6400 review - testing speed and getting to know Synology branded SSDs

... you from replacing the CPU with more powerful ones if Synology offers ... high response stability in random read and write tasks, and are ... be replaced. But here I would not flatter myself: how well Synology ... some examples: Failover Virtualization Cluster Synology MailPlus - testing a failover ... with VMware infrastructure, you can take advantage of the free Synology Storage ... 3 x Synology SAT 5200, 480Gb, RAID5 BTRFS OS: VMware ESXi 6 ... You can read about them in our storage reviews Synology and Huawei ...