I have three Synology NAS systems. #1 - is for entertainment use only: watching TV shows, movies, storing my personal pictures, etc #2 - is for my business related files, like my Xojo projects backup, video projects, etc… #3 - is an off-site mirror of #2.
I want to buy a 4th one. Just to run Xojo apps on. I just don’t know what kind I should get. I don’t want to temper with y existing ones. I tried to play around with my NAS #1. But couldn’t get my Xojo apps run on it.
On my Synology systems I can run a webserver. It does have CGI-support. But for some reason I can’t get the permissions right. Even when I set the permissions on 777 it won’t give me write permissions
Are there any Xojo folks experienced with having Xojo apps run on a NAS?
which model Synology boxes are they?
I believe someone earlier mentioned that XOJO apps would NOT run on the ARM based NAS boxes, which “most” of the Synology are.
I would deploy my apps on a Pi using the NAS for storage & probably a mySQL server (they all seem to come with one built in). A web app springs to mind, that way the UI can be presented on all your devices. You can probably power your Pi from the USB port on the NAS device too.
It’s realy slow especially if your webapp contains a little more than a simple ‘Hello World’, but also most Intel based NAS’s are not very fast because they mostly use a Celeron or an Atom and those aren’t strong performers for web-apps.