Virtualise QNAP OS on the QNAP?

[seedy21]

Hi,

I have a QNAP 251 with 8GB of RAM and I am looking at running a website. As I have all my back-ups for my laptops with Family photos. What I would like to do is run a Virtual QNAP OS and run it on the second NIC Card so that only that is available for HTTP/HTTPS/ FTP access so if it gets compromised they won't have access to my personal files.

Would this be possible? I know I could download something like CentOS Server instead, but I prefer the QNAP GUI.

Thanks

[Trexx]

Currently the only NAS supporting vQTS (virtual QTS) is the new TS-x77 platform.

There are other alternatives such as running Apache/etc. in a docker container that would give you some of the isolation you are looking for, but to be honest I probably would just spend a couple bucks a month and get a hosted website on an external provide like Squarespace.

It is a lot safer and then you don't have to worry about the security headaches, the downtime impacts of patching/updates/etc. on your NAS.

[seedy21]

Thanks for the quick reply Trexx.

As I don't really have a lot of money to use on this I guess I will have to go with CentOS and Centos Webpanel.