OT: NFS and iOS -

[poma]

On 19.11.2014 17:09, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> 
> On 11/19/14 10:35, poma wrote:
>> Did you consider ClearOS Community - reminiscent of "CentOS" with nice WebUI;)
>> http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/overview.html
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_derivatives
>>
>> ClearOS Live Demo
>> http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/live-demo.html
> 
> 
> My situation does not lend itself to so-called "cloud" servers. We are 
> in a rural area where high speed options are limited to radio.
> 
> My Viasat usage as of about 04:00 this morning:
> 
> 
>   "Welcome, Bob Goodwin
> 
> 
>       CURRENT DATA USAGE
> 
> 10.6GB
> 
> 42% used of 25GB allowance
> 
> 19 days remaining in the current billing period"
> 
> 
> The Mac users all utilize some Apple cloud storage which wreaks havoc 
> with my usage. I configure the router to keep them off the iCloud except 
> during the "free" of charge early morning hours. They can eat up 25 gigs 
> in a few hours, from there my cost for more bandwidth doubles!
> 

ClearOS can be deployed on e.g. Amazon EC2, sure
http://www.clearcenter.com/support/documentation/clearos_install_guide/amazon_ec2
but this is only one possible purpose.

You might prefer to compare it with FreeNAS, only ClearOS is Linux in the heart, not BSD.