I am planning to Self Host on a QnapNAS I was gifted but truthfully I am at a loss to how one does that. I know how to install and run but not on a NAS. Could anyone help and explain?

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 month ago

First you gotta ask yourself, ~~do you feel lucky?~~ what are you trying to solve for?

General file storage with backup somewhere?

File sync from mobile devices?

Getting calendaring to your own hardware?

Start with what your goals are, them look for solutions that QNAP can support.

As I mentioned my other comment, I prefer using a NAS as storage and use a server for managing services.

This way I have services isolated by functionality - one of my VM's is ONLY for file management. It provides the SMB shares, an http file server, and an SFTP service. All other services that require file access do it through that server.