Hello,
I'm looking for advice on buying a server to do a variety of things.
First thing is of course to run Linux, and preferably Ubuntu.
The following should be possible:
A. VPN
To use it as a VPN for anonymous browsing the web
B. Webserver
Used as a build server
as described here. I should be able to push to that build server on a different machine.
Then the following web servers:
1. Node, Express, Mongo DB
2. Apache, Mysql, Php
And hobby with a Docker setup.
C. Media server
Use it to stream movies using for example Plesk.
Search so far
My guess is that I will need to purchase a server station with multiple slots for hard disks. On that, I will use VM's for the different configurations.
Examples are the Synology
DSS418J or a
DS418. Price then seems to be around $ 1000,- for both the case and drives.
And I was wondering if that is the right approach, where the software of the Synology manages the disks, and you have Linux running on the disks separately. Or isn't that how this works and is it customary to install Linux on the Synology device and in that sense would any other service suffice?
Do you have some advice?
