Does this make sense for a home server?

[mheppner]

I was actually wondering if I was being to 'jail prolific'.

Nah, I don't think so. With resources being so cheap now, I don't think running extra jails is really going to bog down your machine. I have 6 jails running and it doesn't even seem notice most of the time. I could be wrong though.

Where you suggest to turn on the firewall is that on the base install or per jail?

I'm not sure how you have your jails set up, but I put all of my on one of my NICs, NAT'ed together. I use PF as a firewall and route traffic as necessary. It's pretty easy to block all incoming ports and only allow certain ports to redirect their traffic to specific jails. Check out the handbook or the Networking forum for some examples. Regardless, PF will be enabled on the main OS and that should be the only thing you will have to manage.

 

[PacketMan]

A time comes in every young man's life when he needs a home server. So I'm looking to put together my first. I'm wanting to offload some services off my PC onto the server as well as implement some new services. The server will be used to serve 6 family members sometimes concurrently but most often not. In fact with sleep, work and school the server will be idle for about 14hours a day most days. I need some guidance and mentoring if the community would be so kind.

I am a bit late to this discussion but here goes:

• I more or less am (or was) in the same boat as you.
• I contemplated using FreeNAS, but decided I could learn much much more, and get a 'more-made-for-me' system by using FreeBSD. Goal achieved and still learning.
• Regarding backups: I built three servers and use BitTorrent Sync. Two of the three servers are off-site. Thus if I lose a server or disk, or house burns down, I got 2 more copies elsewhere. Since BitTorrent Sync is not really a backup system, I am also now using TAR and FTP to copy my select content over to Seagate IP connected drives that I also rotate off site. (Just in case some day I goof up and do a rm -f -r in the wrong folder.
• I used older hardware. Machines with 1 to 4 GB of ram, and 1st generation 64 bit processors really. So far so good.
• I use net/minidlna and multimedia/plexmediaserver for my media streaming needs. Works nicely.
• Minecraft server is running for LAN parties.
• No jails or ZFS yet. ZFS needs ECM ram right? I am having good success using UFS.
• net-p2p/transmission is for any bittorrenting I do. (I like the old black n white movies from public domain.)

This set up works great, so much so my family has come to take it for granted. And regardless of where we are using Bittorrent Sync on our devices gives us fast access to our content. In essence I have built my own cloud.

But all that said, my 'UNIX' knowledge and skills are growing everyday. And that is where a lot of the real enjoyment comes from.

 

[fred974]

So far I have been successful in proving the concept. I have been able to create three separate jails. Each jail running one service being, Unifi, Murmur / Mumble, and Minecraft.

Spoook , could you please tell me how you managed to installed unifi controler in iocage jail?
When I try to access it, I get

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Here is my post do you think you can help please?

Thank you