Kevin,

You might want to take a look at the Freedombox.org software:

Run your digital services from your home
FreedomBox is a private server for non-experts: it lets you install and configure server applications with only a few clicks. It runs on cheap hardware of your choice, uses your internet connection and power, and is under your control.

It has a front panel and was designed for people who are running a home server and are not super-admins, although I do not think that it is "Mom&Pop(TM)" ready either. There is a lot of functionality there.....you do not have to set up everything all at once.

99% of the software has been incorporated into Debian 11 and Debian 12, and therefore runs on a variety of hardware platforms, everything from an old laptop to a Raspberry Pi 5 (which can go up to 8 GB of RAM for 80 USD). The RPi 5 has a PCI-e bus built in and there are "Hats" that allow you to add two M.2 solid state memory cards to set up RAID.

The 1 Gbps ethernet connection would probably give you all the throughput you need.

On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 4:10 PM Kevin Stratton via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:

I am looking for a cheap solution for the following:

1) Email server/redireector. I want to have a full custom domain and
email addre0ss.

2) FTP server on the same domain as the email server.

3) GUI setup preferred, I do not want to invest the time (right now) to
get this working as a 'ground up'

project.

4) Total bandwidth needs should be negligible.

How would you approach this?

At a very high level, I am considering:

1) Dedicating a DDR3 (RAM) era Intel I3 P.C. (sorry, I don not know the
generation) and installing NAS software with the appropriate docker
plugins, if they exist. I do not know if this is even reasonable.
Suggestions are appreciated. I am using a home ISP account. I am aware
of DynDNS type services to get around the lack of a static IP. I do not
currently plan on using this device as an actual NAS due to security
concerns. If necessary, I will use sneaker-net to transfer data,
although I am thinking about ssh or even RS232.

2) Renting out space on a service like Amazon Web services. Maybe they
have an image that is already what I want.

Any ideas/thoughts/experiences would be appreciated. I hope to be at
the meeting next Thursday.

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