Hi there,
first post so hello everyone!!!
Anyway, we are a small company of 5 architects who are good with computers in terms of cad/3d/photoshop and building/tinkering with machines.....etc but in no way servers.
Basically at the moment we have 2 nas units which are running on an old version of samba which I believe is not upgradable to v3, an xp machine that shares the plotters/printers. Our email is outsourced to fusemail.com and our website is hosted elsewhere again.
I have 2 machines that are spare, and I'm considering building a file server using something like freenas, but also am considering building an actual ubuntu server but what would the benefits of a server be for us? Our internet is about 7mb down and I think 1mb up, so I don't know if its suitable to host email or net...etc.
Just some initial pointers would be really appreciated.
Cheers
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