Migrating from FreeNAS to FreeBSD
I love FreeNAS. Its awesome, well built, well-supported. But as my needs increased, I wanted to use my FreeNAS box for more than the basics. In particular, I was moving towards a single host to run as a:
- Family NAS server
- Development server
- IRC client
- VM server
- Web server
- Email Server
- Git Server
- Home Firewall
- Home IPv6 gateway
- IPv6 VPN and Jump box
FreeNAS could easily do all of this. But I found myself using the device for everything but a NAS server. Also, as my experience on FreeBSD reaching proficient-status, I wanted to jump in the deep end and manually configure a production system from scratch. So I thanked FreeNAS for their contribution, yanked out the USB disks and installed FreeBSD 11.1 on a separate USB disk.
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